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Difference between 'wake up' & 'get up'

Difference between 'wake up' & 'get up'

Date: Sep 10 2007

Topic: Vocabulary

Author: guchhi

Lesson

The difference between wake up and get up is very small. But I thought it would be beneficial to know the exact difference. Wake up is when you wake up from sleep. Get up is when you get out of bed. Usually, when people wake up, they get up. However, sometimes people just stay in bed. In that situation, they couldn't use these two words interchangeably. Here is an example dialog showing the difference.

Person A: 'When did you get up this morning?'
Person B: 'I got up at 11.'
Person A: 'You slept at 11 last night. So you slept for 12 hours?'
Person B: 'No. I actually woke up at 9, but I just stayed in bed.'

When you talk to people, go ahead and use either of these two words. Just keep in mind that there is a small difference.

On a side note. When you ask someone when they woke up, you don't use the past tense of 'woke' although it is referring to the past. 'What time did you woke up this morning' is incorrect. The correct way to ask this question is, 'What time did you wake up this morning?'

Likewise, you wouldn't say, 'What time did you got up?' The correct way to say this is, 'What time did you get up?'

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baotian

China

Thank you!

06:09 AM Nov 21 2007 |

tomris

tomris

Azerbaijan

yeah it's very useful information.thank youKiss

03:25 PM Nov 20 2007 |

eterofcolombia

Colombia

thanks is very important for my ok

02:13 PM Nov 20 2007 |

naruma

Spain

May be you can wake up from bed and get up from a chair. I'm not really sure

11:37 AM Nov 20 2007 |

keepintouch

India

Superb

10:45 AM Nov 20 2007 |

pop272001

pop272001

Indonesia

thanks..I have two vocabulary in the same time!!

08:55 AM Nov 20 2007 |

Muhammad Aqeel

Pakistan

some days ago, my teacher taught us the same lesson.

 

best regard,

aqeel

 

12:27 PM Nov 19 2007 |

jingzi6284693

China

Thanks a lot  ^^

Any language is very beautiful.

12:47 PM Nov 18 2007 |

liu3661288

United Kingdom

l am a chinese boy

12:35 PM Nov 18 2007 |

maro-maro

Egypt

 it's really very smal difference

so thank you for making it clearSmile 

10:47 AM Nov 17 2007 |

tonyle_1988

Viet Nam

That helps, thanks a lot

01:17 AM Nov 17 2007 |

aditya sharma

India

I think english is not a subject, It is a language. So we should have all in all   

06:49 AM Nov 16 2007 |

aditya sharma

India

Thanks to give us such example. some times such example confuse in daily rutin.

06:47 AM Nov 16 2007 |

ALI 619

Pakistan

this is my first lesson.i want to say thanks,

 

05:29 AM Nov 15 2007 |

kiko8586

China

Good lesson. I see .Wink

04:47 AM Nov 15 2007 |

lady grisel

Ecuador

Thank you for this lesson

04:15 PM Nov 14 2007 |

lady grisel

Ecuador

Thank you for this lesson

 

04:11 PM Nov 14 2007 |

hamadooo

hamadooo

Kuwait

Thank you very much

this is really useful

we need more like this one ;) 

03:24 AM Nov 12 2007 |

bent zayed

United Arab Emirates

 

Thanx alot  for the clarification between the wake up and get up ..Smile

09:54 PM Nov 01 2007 |

drama

drama

Venezuela

oh! just a small difference!~

07:31 AM Nov 01 2007 |

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