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How to spell wake up

hear itverbSilent and tricky

What it means: Stop sleeping.

In a sentence: Every morning, I wake up with the sunshine.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as wakeup or weak up.

Same family: wake, woke, woken, waking, awake. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Wake comes from Old English “wacan,” meaning ‘to arise’ or ‘to be alert.’ The phrasal verb “wake up” became common in modern English to clearly mean ‘stop sleeping.’

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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