The phrase "a classmate from a" is grammatically correct but incomplete in written English.
It can be used when referring to a classmate who is associated with a specific institution or location, but the phrase needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "I met a classmate from a different university during the conference."
Alternatives: "a peer from a" or "a fellow student from a".
By kindergarten, a child from a disadvantaged family could have heard 32 million words less than a classmate from a professional family.
Perlman sold Cignal for $200 million in 2000, then joined up with Avi Goldberg, 32, a former roommate and partner in the telecom venture; and Aaron Mandell, 32, a classmate from a Jewish elementary school outside Boston, to look for the next big score.
A teenage girl in Maryville, Mo., claims she has been repeatedly threatened and harassed after she said she was raped last year by a classmate from a well-connected family.
"I have a classmate from college who is now a billionaire," he said, "and another classmate working in the government.
For the next four years, he roomed with Pat Duerr, a classmate from Brother Rice and still a close friend.
He wrote the screenplay for "Nothing but a Man" with Robert Young, a classmate from Harvard who had made documentaries.
Jacqueline Kennedy, a classmate from Miss Porter's, wore a Pulitzer dress while on vacation: "It was made from kitchen curtain material and people went crazy," Ms. Pulitzer said.
Mr. Cotton, who sold furniture in the flea markets of Paris before starting a design business with a classmate from Pratt five years ago, counseled that regardless of what is commissioned, it's important to first consider every detail.
Then one day last spring, on the way home from a friend's house, Ferreira ran into a classmate from elementary school who was pushing a stroller and also pregnant.
What he wanted to say was a brief, extemporaneous tribute to a classmate from the Chicago seminary, Msgr. John J. Egan, another stalwart of Catholic struggles for social justice and civil rights.
I caught a ride with a classmate from Buffalo, and he had a little Karmann Ghia, and at least in my memory, there was zero heat, and we were traveling down the New York State Throughway in this massive wind, with huge amounts of snow and blizzard, it's probably a bigger storm in memory than it was in reality.
