A: I'm honored to be with you at your college's commencement ceremony.
B: I'm honored to be with you at your college's beginning ceremony.
Do these sound natural? And are both the same thing? Does this sound natural?
B: I'm honored to be with you at your college's beginning ceremony.
Do these sound natural? And are both the same thing? Does this sound natural?
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- Filipino
- English (UK) Near fluent
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—In all graduation ceremonies, I have only seen letter A, I had never encountered letter B before.
“I'm honored to be with you at your college's commencement ceremony.”
—Usually, it’s called commencement excercise.
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- English (US)
- Filipino
- English (UK) Near fluent
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—In all graduation ceremonies, I have only seen letter A, I had never encountered letter B before.
“I'm honored to be with you at your college's commencement ceremony.”
—Usually, it’s called commencement excercise.
👍🏻😉
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Although I understood, I thought the word 'commencement' also has meaning of 'Beginning'. It's confusing to me. Thanks a lot ☺
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- English (UK) Near fluent
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@goozz Although they have similar meaning, but the appropriate term for graduation ceremonies is “commencement” 👍🏻😉
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