Graduate

Only "He graduated from high school ten years ago." works.

Then, is "At 19, he was graduated from Howard University, where he was a premedical student" wrong? However, I think I have seen many sentences like this so far, and even the above example sentence is also extracted from 'TIME'. Is it such a thing that is wrong in principle, but that people commonly use?

"He was graduated from..." is wrong. Can you provide a link which you say that it is correct ?

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904335,00.html

However, I think you need to subscribe if you want to read the whole context. Alternatively, in "Fraze.it", you can find the same sentence and also confirm the source where the sentence is extracted from. There

Can you provide the sentences in which "was/were graduated from" is used?

1. He was graduated from West Point in 1841 and was assigned to the Ordnance Department.
2. Rivlin was graduated from Bryn Mawr and earned a doctorate in economics at Radcliffe.
3. In 1859, he was graduated from the Academy of Shelburne Falls.
...

As I said above, you could find more such sentences in that website, 'fraze.it' though I am not sure w

Thanks for the sentences, Lucas.

However, I had never seen such sentences before. I wonder if other members are familiar with such constructions.

I think this is something that has crept into American English, but that many people still consider wrong.

Clive