Common Mistakes : Awake

 verb

.BAD: I get up at seven o’clock but I awake an hour earlier

.GOOD: I get up at seven o’clock but I wake up an hour earlier

.BAD: The next morning we awoke up at 7 o’clock to catch the train

.GOOD: The next morning we woke up at 7 o’clock to catch the train

Awake is used mainly as an adjective

.It’s gone ten o’clock and the children are still awake

As a verb, awake (WITHOUT up ) is used only in literary styles

.I awoke to the sound of church bells

The usual verb is wake up

.She told me that she keeps waking up in the middle of the night

.I was woken up by a loud whistling noise