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Lukas Juodelis Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

"Leaving" or "Graduating"

I've got a sentence: "TV addicts were also happier to accept that they might be unemployed after [graduating? leaving?] school." As I know, we use "graduate from", so in this sentence "leaving" should be right (to emphasize, that the school is left before graduating). Am I right?

Second sentence: "After comparing their answers with those of the other respondents, the researchers said that their findings [showed? displayed?painted????] a disturbing picture."

Showed? [Just because I guess...]

Thanks in advance.
  

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In the first sentence there are country-specific issues. In the UK, you don't "graduate" from school: "graduating" is something that you do from university or a similar institute of higher education when you're a little older. Also, in the UK "graduate" is not used very much as a transitive verb: you don't "graduate university" you "graduate from university" (though everyone would understand the transitive use perfectly well).

— Mr Wordy

  • In the first sentence there are country-specific issues.
  • In the UK, you don't "graduate" from school: "graduating" is something that you do from university or a similar institute of higher education when you're a little older.
  • Also, in the UK "graduate" is not used very much as a transitive verb: you don't "graduate university" you "graduate from university" (though everyone would understand the transitive use perfectly well).
  • For both these reasons, "leaving" is a better choice in British English.
  • I believe that "graduate" is used transitively more often in the US but you'd need to check US usage with a native US speaker.
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In the first sentence there are country-specific issues. In the UK, you don't "graduate" from school: "graduating" is something that you do from university or a similar institute of higher education when you're a little older. Also, in the UK "graduate" is not used very much as a transitive verb: you don't "graduate university" you "graduate from university" (though everyone would understa
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