i couldn't wake on time or i couldn't woke on time

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i couldn't wake on timeori couldn't woke on timewhich sentence is correctthanks

J Lewis · Accepted Answer

The first is correct. The past is expressed by "couldn't", which is followed by an infinitive. By the way, capital "I".

Benita · Answer

I couldn't wake up on time.

J Lewis · Answer

Yes, wake up is more usual.

Marius Hancu · Answer

Yes, in many circumstances it's used with up:
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wake

2 a : to become roused from sleep : stop sleeping : AWAKE<soon woke refreshed -- Eudora Welty> <ruffled his hair as if he had just woken -- Audrey Barker> -- often used with up<I waked up at 3 o'clock in the morning -- Joyce Cary> <the boy had waked from dreams -- Ralph Robin>

b : to become stirred from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state <woke out of his trance -- O.S.J.Gogarty> <the old feelings had woken -- Rumer Godden> -- often used with up<on national holidays ... the little place wakes up -- Tom Marvel>

c : to enter into a new state of awareness or consciousness : become free from misconception or illusion <has woken up and ... rescinded its previous resolution -- Cape Town (South Africa) Monitor> -- usually used with to <social scientists have waked to the story's importance -- Roger Burlingame> <woke up to the fact that this was a delusion -- Atlantic>

(13 Oct. 2006).
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Gift telts 1990 · Answer

I couldn't woke you up on time or I couldn't wake you up on time which sentence is correct

i couldn't wake on time or i couldn't woke on time

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