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by silicon2401 1374 days ago
> The prime minister will be woken,

Totally unrelated but is this correct grammar? I realize I've never seen "woken" without "up", as in "woken up". To avoid using "up" I would've leaned towards some form of awoke, but am not sure I've ever seen something like "she will be awoke" either. Always fun to encounter grammatical edge cases you're unfamiliar with in your native language.
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pigtailgirl 1374 days ago
-- getting into some cumbersome and annoying English - tenses and principal are often confusing - awoken is the most correctly - woken is fine - awoke is first person past principal - so you're right "she will be awoke" is grammatically incorrect - https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-3/verbs-types-tense... --
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silicon2401 1374 days ago
> awoken is the most correctly

I thought of "awoken" initially, but if I hadn't seen the other wordings before, I don't recall ever seeing the word "awoken" at all! Or if I have seen it before, I second-guessed myself after reading variations of "woke/wake" so much in a short period of time. Thanks for your response

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