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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Two questions; used to and graduate (from)
I have two questions.
1) Used to VS. Simple past tense
I feel like they are interchangeable sometimes or are they always used differently in meaning?
ex) I used to live off campus. VS. I lived off campus.
2) graduate from school VS. graduate school
Although I have learned that 'I graduate from school' is correct, I have heard that 'I graduated school' sentence in a public education program. So I am confused now. What do you native English speakers think about the two questions? Thank you so much as usual in advance!
1) Used to VS. Simple past tense
I feel like they are interchangeable sometimes or are they always used differently in meaning?
ex) I used to live off campus. VS. I lived off campus.
2) graduate from school VS. graduate school
Although I have learned that 'I graduate from school' is correct, I have heard that 'I graduated school' sentence in a public education program. So I am confused now. What do you native English speakers think about the two questions? Thank you so much as usual in advance!
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"I used to live off campus" is much better as a complete sentence. " Hans51 2) graduate from school VS. org/wiki/Graduate_school without more context.
- "I used to live off campus" is much better as a complete sentence.
- " Hans51 2) graduate from school VS.
- org/wiki/Graduate_school without more context.
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"I used to live off campus" is much better as a complete sentence.
"I lived off campus" would normally be followed by some additional information; e.g., "I lived off campus for five months in 2010."
"I lived off campus" would normally be followed by some additional information; e.g., "I lived off campus for five months in 2010."
Hans512) graduate from school VS. graduate schoolI always say "graduate from." Actually, "graduate school" may be
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Hans51Although I have learned that 'I graduate from school' is correct, I have heard that 'I graduated school' sentence in a public education program.In the UK, "graduate" is not very much used transitively (sounds American), so we would use "from". However, in the UK, you do not graduate from "school", but only from higher institutes such as universities or
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