"I graduated college" vs. "I graduated from college"

[CTyankee]

What happened to the English language? How did this get started?

A local candidate for office is running ads here, saying he "graduated college."

I believe that is grammatically incorrect and I will stand by that.

What do you think? How did this even happen in the first place?

[Shrike47]

1. I agree with you. The sentence requires 'from.'

I seem to see this more frequently in the eastern U.S. and in British fiction.

[Not Heidi]

8. It's alive and well in California, too. n/t

[elleng]

2. Ditto, and 'He peed his pants' vs 'He peed IN his pants.'

I do English here!

[leftieNanner]

3. Absolutely!

Needs a FROM!

Drives me nuts.

It's up there with "Me and Joe are going to the movies."

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Graduated college infers he marked the college with units of measurement...

though most people understand what he really meant.

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. It makes me want to go to hospital.

[PJMcK]

11. Are you British? (n/t)

[Evergreen Emerald]

15. No. Just kidding.

[PJMcK]

16. So was me

(wink)

[mopinko]

6. if it's in a piece of lit, i would cut it for space.

other than that, you are correct.

[Not Heidi]

7. Don't know how it happened, but I detest it. n/t

[RobinA]

9. OMG!

do NOT get me started on that usage.

[Mr.Bill]

10. It's a nice car,

but needs painted.

[Harker]

12. I lived in western PA for a short time.

The infinitive "to be" was seldom heard.

I was amused the first few times.

[malthaussen]

20. Yup. Standard regional dialect. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

23. I live in California,

and I never hear people talk this way, but once it's on the internet it's not just regional anymore.

[nolabear]

26. Or warshed.

Lived in Pbgh for a few years. 😄

[Mr.Bill]

27. I was born in Baltimore, but left there in '61,

and I still say that sometimes.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. The correct form is "I was graduated from college."

You're welcome.

[CTyankee]

21. Better: "I earned a degree from State U." A little bit of a brag, but OK, IMO.

[3catwoman3]

24. There are at least 3 of us here who know that.

See #19 below.

[Irish_Dem]

14. One of my daughter's college English professors said that language is evolving every day.

And we weren't supposed to fight how people change the language as they go.

200 hundred years from now the English language will be very different, we can't stop it.

I told my daughter fine, but for god's sake write and speak correctly now.
At least on resumes and in job interviews.

I confess that sometimes when she and her friends are having a conversion I have no idea what in the hell they are talking about.

[LuckyLib]

17. The use of the word "like" multiple times in a sentence

drives me nuts. It used to be younger females. Now it’s all ages, all genders. Fingernails on a chalkboard!

[CTyankee]

18. and I'm, like, you know, "what are you, nuts?"

Instead of, for example, "I was taken aback when she said that. Quite surprised!"

[csziggy]

22. Long before "like" came into vogue my sister complained about the use of "you know"

Though I still see "you know" interjected into sentences, generally as the speaker is trying to come up with their next phrase. It drives me nuts, the same way it did my sister.

After I heard her go on a rant about it, rather than saying "you know" I began simply pausing for a second to gather my thoughts. It also reduces the number of times I use "uh" or other filler phrases and words. I wish more people on media (TV and radio) would do that!

[malthaussen]

19. It is and isn't.

It's very annoying, but seems to be the case, that both constructions are now acceptable grammar. I firmly object, and will use the latter until I can speak no more, but there it is. Indeed, as pointed out upthread, if one wants to be rigorous, one should say "I was graduated from college," which almost no one uses anymore.

-- Mal

[3catwoman3]

25. At least 3 of us here know that!

I am horrified by the increasing occurrence of people managing to mangle “I” into a possessive - “John and I’s vacation,” or “Mary and I’s house.”

I really have to restrain myself not to correct people who indulge in this verbal atrocity.