Despite Mr. And yes, Mr. Bortel, let us not fall to the temptations of inclusivism or group-think grammatical, political, or otherwise! I never went to college. I read a lot. It kind of sounds wrong somehow, but what do I know?
AMEN Bayon! The first impression of you is how you speak. Never forget that. You guys all sound like you have a serious problem with change. When you were younger people from the previous generations also thought that you all sounded funny as kids, and now you are acting like the very same people that your probably use to make fun of as children.
Awaken has always sounded more correct to me. Then there would be no confusion. An awakening is something else altogether. Thank you very much for answering Mr.
In reviewing the comments, I was happy to learn John Lennon shared in my decision. Learning something new is much appreciated — thank you, Hal! I believe Mr. Rose has the right of it. I would add that is might be rather rude to ask someone who is in a state of much needed rest if they are awake. Your knowledge and passion for communication are appreciated and very necessary. Communication is fluid though and available thru many different facets.
It is my hope that the ability to converse is held paramount to the way in which it is accomplished. What caused me to research this was its usage in an article in The New Yorker. Awoken or Awakened? By Maeve Maddox. Stop making those embarrassing mistakes! Subscribe to Daily Writing Tips today! You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! You'll also get three bonus ebooks completely free!
Try It Free Now. I'd prefer the first, but that's just personal taste. These are from two different words that can pretty much be used interchangeably. Awakened is the past part. If you interested, I'm sure you could find some usage notes somewhere on the net regarding the whole wake, awake, waken, awaken convolution.
As an AE speaker, I have never heard "I was awoken by a knock at the door. I don't think I would say either, naturally. I'd go for "I was woken by a knock at the door". The problem is that we have participial forms from three different verbs that may mean the same thing.
That is, "awake," "awaken," and "wake" may all mean "to rouse from sleep. In the sentence under consideration, I could accept "woken," "awakened," and "awoken.
She woke me before the sun came up. Yesterday, I awoke to the sound of a bear getting at my garbage again. For the intransitive vb. This present began already in OE. Late OE. This gave M. After the weak awakened came into common use, as pa. They are so included here. Of all these forms the sense was in OE. There has been some tendency, especially in later times, to restrict the strong pa.
The str. Shakspere used only the weak inflexions. Sense 5 of awaken is: 5. The OED entry for wake is even more expansive than on the other two, but it does have one interesting note that is probably relevant here: The mod. It seems to have taken the lead around N-gram Moreover, there is little difference between the so-called American and British corpora that Google purports to provide: both have just about the same cross-over point for those two.
For example, if we add the weak verb, had awakened , our picture changes quite a bit: N-gram Whereas this n-gram shows the longer picture: Note that the now-archaic had awaked used to be dominant, but now long ago: ngram. Improve this answer. There may be scope for examining transitive and intransitive uses, but it's a big topic. BarrieEngland Agree. The transitive sense of the weak verb awaken is actually new; people always used the strong verb awake for transitive things.
However, this has now changed and the transitive use of awaken dominates today. BarrieEngland The questioner seems to think that all this may have to do with formal writing versus casual conversation. It is much harder to get data on speech, though, than on writing. The OED seems to think transitive awaken is now its dominant use. I have no idea how you would go about doing that.
You cannot make people talk some way or another. Show 3 more comments. Steveinsandiego Steveinsandiego 1. Your preferences regarding awake are reasonable—but as presented in your response, they constitute an unsupported comment. I suspect that whoever downvoted your answer did so because it doesn't back up the expression of personal preferences with reference-work corroboration. At this site, answers are supposed to include such corroboration if possible.
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