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Hi teachers,
I made up these sentences below. The meaning I want to convey is that Sara woke up as a result of having a nightmare, but I want to use neither "as a result" nor "due to".
1. Sara woke up terrified from a nightmare.
2. Sara woke up terrified of a nightmare.
3. Sara woke up terrified by a nightmare.
4. Sara woke up terrified to a nightmare.
5. Sara woke up terrified upon a nightmare.
My questions:
-I'd like to know which one is correct and whether they have a difference in meaning
-If (4) was wrong, would it be correct if I removed "terrified"?
-Is it correct if I replace "terrified" with "terrifying" in all of the sentences?
Thanks a lot
Top answer
1 . Sara woke up terrified from a nightmare. The word order is not quite natural.
- 1 .
- Sara woke up terrified from a nightmare.
- The word order is not quite natural.
- Sara woke up from a nightmare , shaking and sweating from fear.
- 2 .
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1. Sara woke up terrified from a nightmare. 
The word order is not quite natural. Sara woke up from
0Moonrise-If (4) was wrong, would it be correct if I removed "terrified"?
No. "woke up to a beautiful day" might work because the beautiful day is coming next. The nightmare happened earlier in time, so "woke up to a nightmare" sounds backwards. The idea of "woke up to" often has the metaphoric sense of "woke up to greet (something)" or "woke up to face (
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