Anonymous
04/23/2019 18:26
Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
OP:
According to the Grammar Girl it took until 1963 for "was graduated from" to be replaced by "graduated from". I've thought perhaps it comes from people pretending to be sort of British (an awful lot of "pressers" and "bespoke" and "spot on" lately).
Maybe if we over-correct by using the pre-1963 usage we can steer the country back to a middle course.
According to the Grammar Girl it took until 1963 for "was graduated from" to be replaced by "graduated from". I've thought perhaps it comes from people pretending to be sort of British (an awful lot of "pressers" and "bespoke" and "spot on" lately).
Maybe if we over-correct by using the pre-1963 usage we can steer the country back to a middle course.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 18:18
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.
Well, understanding is not the measure of grammar. So many educated people say this! If I said “I gots to be going to school”, I’d know what you meant, but it would be horrible grammar.
PP what you were doing was completely obvious, I thought.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 18:17
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.
Is irregardless even a word? Why not just say regardless?
Anonymous
04/23/2019 18:16
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Is this sort of like “she peed her pants”?
Anonymous
04/23/2019 18:07
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
OP -- you should meet my DH. This is a HUGE pet peeve for him!
Anonymous
04/23/2019 18:00
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Still sounds dumb. But glad we axed you.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 17:51
Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Actually you are wrong.
There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.
She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.
While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".
Hence both are correct.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate
Original PP, I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 17:38
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!
It annoys me too, but I came from a place where people speak English instead of American English so I guess I just saw it as a typical American thing and tried to get used to it.
"I got bit" is another thing that annoys me, although at least that seems more connected with SES and is therefore easier to avoid.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 17:31
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!
jesus are you kidding me! this is what you're worried about?
Anonymous
04/23/2019 13:48
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!
PSA criticizing dialectical differences in language patterns doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look ignorant and arrogant.
Like going to university.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 13:46
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Drives me crazy you don’t “graduate college” you graduate from college!
PSA criticizing dialectical differences in language patterns doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look ignorant and arrogant.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 13:42
Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:Actually you are wrong.
There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.
She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.
While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".
Hence both are correct.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate
Anonymous
04/23/2019 13:38
Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Actually you are wrong.
There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.
She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.
While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".
Hence both are correct.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate
There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.
She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.
While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".
Hence both are correct.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graduate
Anonymous
04/23/2019 13:01
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Thanks, OP. Me and my spouse will make sure to remind us of that.
Anonymous
04/23/2019 12:53
Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
I highly recommend everyone read Dreyer's English. Although I am still a stickler for grammar, I no longer find myself aggrieved by others' mistakes.