Why! 4am?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by pinkflamingo

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..."

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

No on the first (I think)

Yes on the second (for sure)

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

When would you use "awoken"

[Texas Beta]

Who cares! Now all I hear is the banging of the workers renovating the KA house next door. I can't wait to see it when it's finished, but I sure hate the work that's involved. Hey macallan, didn't it take you guys just a couple of months to finish yalls apartments?

Another thing that annoys me: Next to our house is this shanty looking crack house (you can go from beautiful homes, to crap in West Campus) and there is an ex-con crack head living there. For work now, he installs small motors onto bicycles and they are loud and high pitched. That's not even the clincher, When I pass by his place on the way to the bus stop, I can see one of our coolers sitting next to his door! The jackass stole one of our coolers! I think our house is to far west, in west campus.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

When would you use "awoken"

"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.

[Tom Earp]

When something woken you up from a dead sleep in the middle of great dream!

Hell, that time of the morning cob webs in the head!

Local lingo is apparent at times is it not?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

When something woken you up from a dead sleep in the middle of great dream!

Hell, that time of the morning cob webs in the head!

Local lingo is apparent at times is it not?

No.