Teach me English?
My first language is Japanese and Im trying to perfect my English.
situation is: Naomi wake up at 6:00AM today.
Wich term is the most appropriate under that situation?
1. She woke up early in the morning.
2. She woke up early this morning.
I think the second one is correct.
I guess that (in the morning) ,itself means every morning.
So, (She woke up early in the morning) implies her old habit. and she doesn't wake up early now.
She wakes up early in the morning. is kind of her habit. Therefore
She woked up early in the morning. is kind of her old harbit in the past.
What do you think?
2006-07-26 13:19:31 · 9 answers · asked by joejapan8 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
2 is correct. But, it is "Naomi woke up at 6 a.m. today." Not "Naomi wake up."
The phrase "in the morning" only means generally after midnight and before noon, and the sentence "She woke up early in the morning" does not mean that she is in the habit of waking up early in the morning, only that on an unspecified day she woke up early in the morning.
But if you say, "Naomi wakes up early in the morning," then it means that she is in the habit of doing that.
It is the tense of the verb that determines this. "She wakes up" is present tense, "She woke up" is past tense. One of the meanings of the present tense is to indicate that the action indicated by the verb is ongoing or continuous or habitual.
"Joe sleeps on his side" means that is how Joe always sleeps, but "Joe slept on his side" means only one time in the past.
"She woke up early this morning" means that unlike other mornings, on this particular morning she woke up early.
English can be very hard because from very slight changes there comes very great differences in meaning. You are doing a very good job and are thinking very intelligently about things.
2006-07-26 13:39:26 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think your english is perfect....but u just need a little more work on past tense and present tense verbs and so forth... and if u think about being more specific it probably might help some.
she woke up early this morning.
woke up 6:00 am today> today>this morning
2006-07-26 20:32:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-26 20:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
(2) She woke up early this morning.
It past tense future tense is i.e
She will go to bed at eleven tonight.
2006-07-26 20:26:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She woke up early this morning.
2006-07-26 20:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your English is excellent. Yes No.2 is correct.
2006-07-26 20:24:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations joejapan! Now you can teach me English!
2006-07-26 20:52:41 · answer #7 · answered by Ms. Pelled Babby Schmidt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right
2006-07-26 21:15:35 · answer #8 · answered by fivo72 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good job! what you think is not necesarily more correct, but its more detailed.....
2006-07-26 20:23:11 · answer #9 · answered by ▪♥▪ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋