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leslie
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 Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:00 am Post subject: graduated/ have graduated |
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Dear Teachers,
Which of the following sentences is correct? If they're both correct, do they mean the same thing?
a. I have graduated from college for 10 years.
b. I graduated from college 10 years ago.
Thanks for your help. Have a nice day!!
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Yavanna
Joined: 01 Nov 2005
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Location: Los Cabos, Mexico
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: graduated/ have graduated |
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| leslie wrote: |
Which of the following sentences is correct? If they're both correct, do they mean the same thing?
a. I have graduated from college for 10 years.
b. I graduated from college 10 years ago. |
Sentence [b] (simple past) is correct. We know what you did (finished college) and when you did it (ten years ago).
Sentence [a] should read: "I have graduated from college." The present past tense tells us that you successfully finished college. But we don't know when, although this tense implies that it happened recently.
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