Wake Up
How to Conjugate Wake Up
- Infinitive: Wake Up
- Present Tense: Wake Up/ Wakes Up
- -ing Form: Waking Up
- Past Tense: Woke up
- Past Participle: Woken up
Wake Up is a separable phrasal verb and has 2 definitions.
Definitions of Wake Up:
1. When you are finished sleeping.
Examples: I woke up really late this morning because I forgot to set my alarm clock.
Living downtown is like an alarm clock because the busy city wakes you up.
2. To realize or become aware of something.
Examples: Why don’t you wake up! She’s been cheating on you for months now!
It was that particular moment when I woke up and realized I had to do something different with my life.
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