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Suraj Jaldu Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Is this correct?

"If you wake up at 6am wake me up too"
  

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I think that you have done a fine job. I think, however, that most teachers would give you a lower mark for lack of punctuation. S.

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  • I think that you have done a fine job.
  • I think, however, that most teachers would give you a lower mark for lack of punctuation.
  • S.
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I think that you have done a fine job.

I think, however, that most teachers would give you a lower mark for lack of punctuation.

"If you wake up at 6 a.m., wake me up, too."

P.S. Some people would not use a comma after "up."

HAVE A NICE DAY!
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Thanks for the reply.
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AnonymousI think, however, that most teachers would give you a lower mark for lack of punctuation."If you wake up at 6 a.m., wake me up, too."
In British English, we often write am and pm without stops.
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In the natural environment, people would leave out the comma after " up". That aside, I see issues with semantics and logic in the OP sentence in my opinion.
Anonymous"If you wake up at 6 a.m., wake me up, too."
From a logic point of view, if I must get up at 6 AM tomorrow and I am relying on someone else to wake me up, I would have first asked what time he is
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dimsumexpressFrom a logic point of view, if I must get up at 6 AM tomorrow and I am relying on someone else to wake me up, I would have first asked what time he is waking up, rather than assuming " he is waking up at 6 am".
I don't see why we have to assume that the speaker must get up at six., or even that they assume that the speaker is definitely wak
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fivejedjonI don't see why we have to assume that the speaker must get up at six., or even that they assume that the speaker is definitely waking at six. They might know that the person addressed sometimes wakes up at six, and think that, if that happens, they would like to get up at the same time.
Let's say I have to make it to the airport by 8 AM to catch a f
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dimsumexpressNow with this picture, wouldn't you agree with my last post?
With that context, yes. However, I don't feel that that context is any more (or any less) 'natural' than the context I suggested.
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fivejedjonI don't see why we have to assume that the speaker must get up at six., or even that they assume that the speaker is definitely waking at six. They might know that the person addressed sometimes wakes up at six, and think that, if that happens, they would like to get up at the same time.
Yes 'fivejedjon'. This was my intention.
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Suraj Jaldu"If you wake up at 6am wake me up too"
If you wake up at 6 a.m., wake me up, too.

Every sentence takes a mark of punctuation at the end—a period, a question mark or an exclamation point. This is one of the few rules of English that has no exceptions. Native readers miss it very much when you omit it, so much so that your credibility suffers
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