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Deepcosmos Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

I graduated from

Hello, everyone,

1) This is the school which I graduated from.

2) This is the school where I graduated from.

I think ‘graduate from’ is not an action verb with ‘where’, nor is it a phrasal verb such as ‘come from’ in the <USAGE NOTE> below but a prepositional verb. Thus, I feel 1) above is correct. However, is 2) completely unacceptable at all? Your opinions would be much appreciated.

<USAGE NOTE> When 'where' is used to refer to a point of origin, the preposition 'from' is required:

  • Where did she come from? From where I sit, the situation looks bleak. …

* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2007

  

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deepcosmos This is the school which I graduated from. I prefer "that" for defining clauses, and I believe you will annoy fewer people that way, but "which" is not strictly wrong. " But that is stilted.

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  • deepcosmos This is the school which I graduated from.
  • I prefer "that" for defining clauses, and I believe you will annoy fewer people that way, but "which" is not strictly wrong.
  • " But that is stilted.
  • " But they are even older than I am.
  • deepcosmos This is the school where I graduated from.
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deepcosmosThis is the school which I graduated from.

I prefer "that" for defining clauses, and I believe you will annoy fewer people that way, but "which" is not strictly wrong. Even better is no pronoun when the clause has its own subject, as "I" is here: "This is the school I graduated from." An equivalent sentence is "This is the school from which I grad

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