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Are you awake or are you wake?
To sum it up, you can use pretty much whichever word you like, but in general, you will probably use wake more often than awake, except to use awake as an adjective (for example, I am awake now. ) Here is how you conjugate the words: Wake: Present: Wake: I wake up.
How do you use awake in a sentence?
Awake sentence example
- I was awake half the night.
- She was still awake an hour later when Alex came through the door.
- Betsy was awake when I returned.
- Seeing as I was awake anyhow, I did a bit of surfing for info about our guest.
What is the correct past tense of awake?
awoke
Current Usage At this point in time, our evidence shows that the most common inflections of awake are awoke in the simple past (“he awoke”) and awoken as the past participle (“she was awoken”).
What is the meaning of still awake?
: fully conscious, alert, and aware : not asleep I’m so tired I can barely stay awake.
What’s the difference between woke and awake?
As verbs the difference between awake and woke is that awake is (label) to become conscious after having slept while woke is (wake).
What does stay awake mean?
Meaning. to remain awake, or not go to sleep.
Which is correct awake, awaking, awoke, awoken?
“awoken” is the past participle of the verb “awake”. “awake, awaking, awoke, awoken”. So “I have awoken” is grammatically correct. It is present perfe You have to know the meanings of “awaken” and “awoken”. They are two different verbs. “awaken” is a verb in present (infinitive) form meaning you just wake up, or you just realize something.
What is the meaning of the word awake?
Awake has two meanings: As an adjective it describes a person or animal’s state. As a verb it is intransitive—it takes no object—and means “to become awake (adj)”.
Can you use awake as a predicate adjective?
As an adjective it describes a person or animal’s state. It may only be used as a predicate adjective, in the predicate of a clause, not as an attributive adjective before a noun: ok John is awake and at work.
Which is grammatical correct ” woke to the…” or ” awoke to the dog?
I think that the “a+ verb ” form is restricted to intransitive uses and that the basic form (” verb “) is used mainly in transitive contexts. I awoke. The dog awakes. The logic here is that the other ‘a verbs’ in English are transitive: I amuse myself. I amuse.* This happens with the “be+ verb ” verbs in English, too: I bemoaned my fate.