2020-06-03 ศัพท์ ที่มักสับสน ชุด G – Graduate – graduate from

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2020-06-03

ศัพท์ ที่มักสับสน ชุด G – Graduate – graduate from

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Dictionary.com

Graduate = noun/adj.= GRAJ-oo-it/verb=GRAJ-oo-eyt'

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression 

graduate & graduate from

Both graduated and 

         was graduated  are acceptable terms, 

provided from is also used. 

Say “He graduated from college last year”

or “He was graduated from college last year.”

Do not say “He graduated college last year.”

 

Dictionary.com

USAGE NOTE FOR GRADUATE

In the sense 

          “to receive a degree or diploma” 

          graduate followed by from 

          is the most common construction today: 

                     Her daughter graduated from Yale in 1981. 

The passive form was graduated from, 

         formerly insisted upon as the only correct pattern, 

         has decreased in use and occurs infrequently today: 

                   My husband was graduated from West Point last year.
         Even though it is condemned by some as nonstandard, 

         the use of graduate as a transitive verb 

         meaning “to receive a degree or diploma from” 

        is increasing in frequency in both speech and writing: 

                  The twins graduated high school in 1974.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage of Graduate

Verb

In the 19th century the transitive sense (1a) was prescribed; 

           the intransitive  

          I graduated from college was condemned. 

The intransitive prevailed nonetheless, 

and today it is the sense likely to be prescribed 

 

and the newer transitive sense (1b)  

           she graduated high school the one condemned. 

All three are standard. 

The intransitive is currently the most common,

the new transitive the least common.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

Is it 'graduated' or 'was graduated from'?

What to Know

"I graduated from college" 

         is the most accepted use of graduate in this context. 

You can also say "I graduated college"

or "I was graduated from college." 

 

Both are frequently used, 

          but to some people they are considered incorrect.

 

However, rule or no rule,

        using graduate in an intransitive sense 

        ("I graduated from college") is something 

that speakers of English take to readily.

 

It is now widely agreed that 

there is nothing wrong with saying 

"I graduated from college," Dropping "From"

 

There is still another way in which graduate is used, 

and this one does still produce ire in some people, 

in which the word is used in a transitive sense 

and with the meaning "to be graduated from" 

("I graduated college this year"). 

 

This use is not uncommon, but it is frowned upon by some guides.

 

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

grad′u·a′tor n.

Usage Note: 

Traditionally, the verb graduate 

          denotes the action of conferring an academic degree or diploma, 

           and this sense has often been conveyed in the passive voice,

           as in They were graduated from Yale in 2010. 

 

This usage still exists, 

         though it is somewhat old-fashioned 

         and may be slipping away. 

 

In our 1988 survey, 78 percent of the Usage Panel accepted this sentence, but almost half the Panel found it unacceptable in our 2006 survey. 

Nonetheless, this older use of the verb is both acceptable 

and widespread when the verb is expressed in the active voice 

and the institution is the subject: 

 

The university graduated more computer science majors in 2010 than in the entire previous decade. 

 

Another transitive use,

in which the student is the subject and the institution is the object,

as in She graduated Yale in 2010, does not find favor with the Panel. 

Some 77 percent objected to this usage in 1988 and again in 2006. 

The intransitive, and most frequent, use of the verb,

as in They graduated from Yale in 2010, was ruled acceptable by 97 percent of the Panel in 2006.

 

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary,

grad′u•a`tor, n.

usage: 

graduate followed by from 

        is the most common construction today: 

                  to graduate from Yale. 

The passive form, once considered to be the only correct pattern, 

        occurs infrequently today: 

                  to be graduated from Yale. 

Although condemned by some as nonstandard, 

           the use of graduate as a transitive verb meaning 

           “to receive a degree or diploma from” 

           is increasing in both speech and writing: 

           to graduate high school.