lundi 14 avril 2014

Notes on usage: College / university

 

BrE = British English | NAmE = North American English

 

In both BrE and NAmE a college is a place where you can go to study after you leave secondary school. In Britain you can go to a college to study or to receive training in a particular skill. In the US you can study for your first degree at a college. A university offer more advanced degrees in addition to first degrees.

In NAmE college is often used to mean a university, especially when talking about people who are studying for their first degree: the article The is not used when you are talking about someone studying there: My son has gone away to college. | Where did you go to college? | Ucayali State University.

In BrE you can say: My daughter is at university. In NAmE you cannot use university or college in this way. You use it with articles like a or the to mean a particular university or college: I didn’t want to go to a large university.

 

 

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See also:

Common Phrasal Verbs Irregular Verbs List
Common Sentences Errors Frequently confused words
Common Clichés Thematic list of Idioms
Common misspellings Phrasal Verbs Particles list
Common Preposition Lista de Términos Gramaticales

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