I graduated/have graduated from the university

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Katenka

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I'd like to know the opinion of native speakers about these two sentences:

- I graduated from the university
- I have graduated from the university

Are they interchangeable?

I know all the rules about Past Simple and Present Persect. I am just interested in these examples.

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bhaisahab

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Re: What is the difference between two sentences?

Neither one is a sentence. They lack full stops (periods). Even if they were correct they would be unnatural as standalone sentences.
 

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Re: What is the difference between two sentences?

Tense names are not capitalized. The past simple and present perfect convey different information. They are rarely interchangeable.
 

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Please note that I have changed your thread title.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'
 

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We normally graduate only when we leave university with a bachelor's degree in Britain. We don't therefore say that we graduated 'from (a/the) university'.

We do in American English though.
 
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