go sleep

..he just woke up......go back to sleep

Thanks. I think both "waked" and "woke" are okay.

I have a feeling that we can say the sentence like "I don't think he would go back to sleep" instead of the sentence like "I think he would not go back to sleep".

Am I correct? If not, what's the difference between these two sentences?

lykers I think both "waked" and "woke" are okay.

'Waked' is not OK.

lykersI have a feeling that we can say the sentence like "I don't think he would go back to sleep" instead of the sentence like "I think he would not go back to sleep".

A native French speaker wouldn't agree (the subjunctive to indicate doubt after a negative would be used in the first sentence). But, we're dealing with English here, and I don't think we make

I just looked up the Cambridge http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/wake_1?q=wakeagain, and it says the past tense of the word "wake" has two forms. so I think both forms are correct. Though "woke" is more commonly used. I also googled but can't figure out what's the differen

The difference is that 'waked' is very rarely used in British English. The British National Corpus has three citations for 'waked', 1,266 for 'woke'.

Thanks for your clarification. I'll use "woke" then.