Waked up or woken up?

[nq:1]how is it right in english: "He can be woken up." or "He can be waked up."?[/nq]
The first one. (The "up" is not necessary.) "Waked" isn't used in modern standard English.
Adrian

[nq:1]how is it right in english: "He can be woken up." or "He can be waked up."?[/nq]
Fifty years ago #1 was right and #2 wrong.
Fifty years hence #2 will be right and #1 wrong.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

[nq:1]how is it right in english: "He can be woken up." or "He can be waked up."?[/nq]
I hate both expressions!
How about, "he can be awakened", or "he can be wakened"?

Bob G

[nq:2]how is it right in english: "He can be woken up." or "He can be waked up."?[/nq]
[nq:1]I hate both expressions! How about, "he can be awakened", or "he can be wakened"?[/nq]
"He awakened" (intransitive), but "he can be wakened" (transitive).

Nevertheless, "he can be woken (up)" is usualler.
Matti

[nq:2]I hate both expressions! How about, "he can be awakened", or "he can be wakened"?[/nq]
"He can be woken" is simplest and best.
[nq:1]"He awakened" (intransitive),[/nq]
"Awaken" should be used sparingly as an intransitive verb. "He awoke" is the usual form.
but "he can be wakened" (transitive).
"Awaken" can be used transitively, both in the way Bob suggested, and (p

[nq:1]"He can be woken" is simplest and best.[/nq]
[nq:2]"He awakened" (intransitive),[/nq]
[nq:1]"Awaken" should be used sparingly as an intransitive verb. "He awoke" is the usual form. but "he can be wakened" (transitive). "Awaken" can be used transitively, both in the way Bob suggested, and (preferably) in sentences like "It awakened an interest in him."[/nq]
I agree with eve

[nq:2]how is it right in english: "He can be woken up." or "He can be waked up."?[/nq]
[nq:1]I hate both expressions! How about, "he can be awakened", or "he can be wakened"?[/nq]
I hate all four. Who talks that way? Not any American I know, anyway. I can think of no idiomatic way to say it in that form. "It's OK to wake him up", "You can wake him up", and "It is all right to wake him up"

[nq:1]I agree with everything you wrote there, Adrian.[/nq]
Which only applies to the limited world of BrE, not the wider world of English usage. Of course Matti, a hardened Brit, agreed with what Adrian wrote on this topic. He would do.

Charles Riggs
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[nq:2]I agree with everything you wrote there, Adrian.[/nq]
[nq:1]Which only applies to the limited world of BrE, not the wider world of English usage. Of course Matti, a hardened Brit, agreed with what Adrian wrote on this topic. He would do.[/nq]
You didn't notice that Adrian made some points which expanded and corrected some of mine; that's what I was acknowledging.

Matti

[nq:2]Which only applies to the limited world of BrE, not ... with what Adrian wrote on this topic. He would do.[/nq]
[nq:1]You didn't notice that Adrian made some points which expanded and corrected some of mine; that's what I was acknowledging.[/nq]
You have no way, of course, of knowing what I didn't notice about the post. It is true though I paid little attention to what either of you