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		lifeisstillgood on Sept 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Sec... I expect so - graduation is something that happens to you

whispered on Sept 4, 2013 [–]

Agreed. When people say, "I graduated college", they are saying the college graduated from them, not they graduated from college. The correct usage should be, "I graduated from college."

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