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O'clock Morning Catch Train Awake Awoke Woke I

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Keyword awake
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence The next morning we awoke up at 7 o'clock to catch the train.
Correct Sentence The next morning we woke up at 7 o'clock to catch the train.
Cloze Error Sentence The next morning we [[awoke]] up at 7 o'clock to catch the train.
Cloze Sentence The next morning we [[woke]] up at 7 o'clock to catch the train.
Cloze Answer woke
Choices awoke | woke
Explanation

Awake is used mainly as an adjective: 'It's gone ten o'clock and the children are still awake.' As a verb, awake (WITHOUT up ) is used only in literary styles: 'I awoke to the sound of church bells.'

The usual verb is wake up: 'She told me that she keeps waking up in the middle of the night.' 'I was woken up by a loud whistling noise.'

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