Carlisle, IA – The world’s first surviving septuplets have graduated from their Iowa high school.
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Alexis, Brandon, Joel, Kelsey, Kenny, Natalie and Nathan McCaughey all crossed the stage Sunday as part of Carlisle High School’s class of 2016.
The septuplets were born Nov. 19, 1997, ranging in weight from 2 pounds, 5 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Their mother had taken a fertility drug.
KCCI-TV in Des Moines reports that the septuplets are going on separate paths following high school, including the military and college. The station says two of the seven plan to attend Hannibal-LaGrange University in Missouri, where their parents say they were promised a free education.
This headline, which stated that the septuplets “graduated high school”, is incorrect. One cannot “graduate a high school”, or any school. One can only graduate “from” a school. The preposition “from” has to separate the verb “graduated”, and the noun “school”. My English teacher would constantly correct us on that matter. Every day, it disgusts me to see how the English language is murdered, both in the print media, on the Internet, by news commentators on television and radio, and by the public in general. During the recent Republican debates, one of the finalists (Kasich), would conveniently leave off the “g” at the end of a word (i.e. comin”, dealin”, “goin”). Yidden, what ever happened to speaking proper English, and writing proper English? Did it go the way of the rotary dial telephone, the teletype, the typewriter, and the telegram? Please explain??
Also, many people forget that gerunds are posessive! e.g. My going.His coming etc.
I am an English teacher. I give special forgiveness to all headline writers.
How about complementing the surviving septuplets???????
This is about them……not teaching English grammar!!!!!
Good Luck.. to collage
#7 - Is it acceptable for people who use English as a second language to use incorrect English? What about people who use English as a first language, who can’t speak or write correct English. Unfortunately, there are many on this site who can’t do that, and prefer to engage in texting.
To #3- Kindly note that just because someone has a regional dialect, that does not excuse them from speaking incorrect English. One can still speak with a dialect, and use correct English. Gov. Kasich is just too lazy to speak correct English.
To #9 - I don’t agree with your analysis, pertaining to “graduated from a school”, instead of “graduate from a school”. It appears that both uses are correct. However, your argument is tantamount to someone who disagrees on the use of a split infinitive such as “he arrived home late”, as opposed to “he was late in arriving home”. Incidentally, you don’t even know “Proper English”, yet you made some asinine remark that he doesn’t have a life or use common sense. Your remark is typical of the lack of derech eretz on this site!