Not that this matters a whole lot, but where did two of us get the idea that "graduate college" was British usage? >From: dabro <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: usage question >Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:53:00 -0500 > > Thank you Edmond for setting me straight . I've always thought that >"graduate college" was British usage and "graduate from" American. It's >only lately that I've been hearing "graduate high school" in American >English. As you correctly note, "graduate" is an IV. That's why Larry is >uncomfortable trying to form a passive sentence with it. David BrownESL/EFL >teacherLong Beach, CAUSA --- On Sat 12/16, Edmond Wright < >[log in to unmask] > wrote:From: Edmond Wright [mailto: >[log in to unmask]]To: [log in to unmask]: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 >16:40:03 +0000Subject: Re: usage question>Geoff,As an Englishman I judge >that we English would never say 'graduate highschool', (1) for 'to >graduate' is an intransitive verb in English English,and (2) it is only >used of graduating from the UNIVERSITY. We do not callgaining one's 'GCSE' >(General Certificate of Education -- at 16) or'A-Level' (Advanced level >GCSE -- at 18) 'graduating' at all. Mostsecondary schools (only a >minority of which are called 'high schools') holdwhat is called a 'Speech >Day' later the following year, a day on which avisiting dignitary formally >presents the GCSE and A-Level certificates andany school prizes that are >offered to the students of these two differentages, who have left school at >different times. Thus Speech Days have neverbeen referred to as performing >'graduation'.EdmondDr. Edmond Wright3 Boathouse CourtTrafalgar >RoadCambridgeCB4 1DUEnglandEmail: [log in to unmask]: >http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~elw33Phone [00 44] (0)1223 350256To join or leave >this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface >at:http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.htmland select "Join or leave >the list"Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > >_______________________________________________ >No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. >Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com > >To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface >at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >and select "Join or leave the list" > >Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/