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In the last 5 years I have heard a number of people say something like, "He graduated High School in 2005." Where did the "from" go, as in, "He graduated from High School in 2005."

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And what about: "He was graduated from high school in 2005"?

(Is it something you do, or something that is done to you?)

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Once upon a time, it was the school that graduated the students .... ie, the University of Wisconsin graduated 1,500 students last year. If I were one of them, I would have been graduated from UW. I think over time it came to seem awkward to say either "UW graduated Rob" or "Rob was graduated from UW." So the "was" got dropped and it became "Rob graduated from UW." So now, the graduating is something the student does, not what the school does. Quite a remarkable shift over a relatively short period of time, I think.

But I think some people have some lingering sense that that's not quite right, so they drop the from and say Rob graduated UW.

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