Timeline for If “I woke up at 10” is okay, what about “I slept at 10”?
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| Mar 21, 2015 at 18:49 | history | edited | Ben Kovitz |
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| Mar 21, 2015 at 10:53 | answer | added | Ben Kovitz | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Mar 21, 2015 at 4:21 | history | edited | Maulik V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 23:51 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @MaulikV: what you say doesn't follow, because the opposite of "wake up" or "awaken" isn't normally "sleep", it's "go to sleep" or "fall asleep" (or I suppose "start sleeping" although that's not a natural phrase). The opposite of "sleep" isn't "wake up", it's "be awake". They just aren't symmetrical as you'd expect. Like the answer over on that other question says, you can sometimes use "slept" to mean "went to sleep" in British or American English, but it's out of the ordinary. As you can see, it provokes argument between native speakers whether it's correct or incorrect :-) | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 21:26 | answer | added | DCShannon | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 17:58 | comment | added | jamesqf | There's also the problem of knowing exactly when one begins to sleep. That is, I may go to bed at 10, but will not enter a sleep state until some time after that - and if I look at a clock to see what time it is, that means I'm still awake :-) | |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 14:19 | answer | added | user3738893 | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 12:47 | comment | added | oerkelens | This ELU question is interesting. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 12:41 | comment | added | Maulik V | @oerkelens I also feel it correct. If you 'woke' up at 10, you can say 'slept' at 10 as well! | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 12:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/578899167189327872 | ||
| Mar 20, 2015 at 12:34 | answer | added | PJvG | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 10:32 | comment | added | oerkelens | Does I slept at ten indeed mean the same as I went to sleep at ten? Somehow I have no problem with the sentence, it feels all right (and that's not because of my mother tongue, because in Dutch it does not sound OK). | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 10:16 | answer | added | Brian Hitchcock | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 6:49 | comment | added | JMB | "Sleep" is a long process. It never spans just one minute. "I was sleeping at 10 o'clock" means "I was in the process of sleeping as 10 o'clock went by". That's perfectly fine. I've never heard "I slept at 10" and so it doesn't seem right to me. In fact, if I didn't know better, I'd suggest you had made a mistake and wanted to say "I fell asleep at 10 o'clock". | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 6:41 | history | asked | Maulik V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |