CAIRO - Essam Sayed works in a time-honored profession - one that employs him for one month a year. He is a second-generation "mesaharati," which loosely translates from Arabic as "dawn caller."During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended this week with a feast called Eid al Fitr, devout Muslims abstain from all forms of food or drink from dawn until sunset.
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By AMR NABIL
Associated Press, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Fri, 07/17/2015 - 10:40am
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I wake up at four most mornings. My wife woke me up at seven o’clock. He was woken up by a loud crash. You will need to recognize the different forms and meanings in your reading; but for your own work you can use wake up in any context or register.
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I just woke up. is colloquial. I've just woken up. is more standard phrasing. I was woken up. means someone or something woke you up. It does not mean: I was awake (not sleeping) when [something happened]. to be awake = to not be sleeping to be woken up = to have one's sleep interrupted by something; to cause the sleeping to end.
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'Wake up' implies that it is happening around the current time and is an ongoing action. 'Woke up' is the past tense implying that it is over. For example: Normally I wake up at 6, but yesterday I woke up at 2 and I just couldn't sleep.
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Did you wake up? Is correct, the other one is grammatically incorrect. However, similar questions that begin with "are you" would be:
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"My wife was asleep, and I woke her up." Though you can say: "I woke up my wife". According to Cambridge Dictionary : Wake: to cause (a person or animal) to be awake after sleeping // The sound of children shouting woke me. — often + up // Don't hesitate to wake me up if you need anything at all.
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