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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
When would you use "awoken"
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"He was awoken by a knock on the door," perhaps.
I should have completely quoted the first part of the entry before:
Awake has past awoke, rarely awaked, and p.p. awaked sometimes awoken and rarely awoke; wake has past woke, rarely (and that usually in transitive sense) waked, and p.p. waked, rarely woke or woken; awaken and waken have -ed.
So I should have noted that "I was woken by it" is also rare, but acceptable. I should have also noted that Fowler's tends to reflect British rather than American usage.
I grew up near a railroad track and I love the sound of a train at night.
On the other hand, work trucks would have me going insane.