Waken or Awaken? Can PLEASE help me?

Question

Is this right and which one should I use. Waken or awaken? What is the difference anyway?

"I gazed closely at his precious face noticing his delicate rosy cheeks and smooth skin, silky to the touch. His perfectly shaped lips stayed barely opened ready to burst a loud cry if waken."

I really appreciate your help. Thank you. =)

***Can you please help me?***

Is this right?
"... nurtured their leaves turning them brightly yellow with green."

Answer 1

Waken and awaken are interchangeable. However, your sentence should read....."ready to burst a loud cry if awakened." Past tense....he will not cry until after he has been awakened. I see what you are saying with your second sentence. For clarification, it should say "brightly yellow and green". It also needs a comma between leaves and turning.

Answer 2

"I gazed closely at his precious face noticing his delicate rosy cheeks and smooth skin, silky to the touch. His perfectly shaped lips stayed barely opened ready to burst a loud cry if WOKEN UP.."
"woken up" is the right word.

Answer 3

I'd use woken, awoken, awakened or wakened.
**Have checked dictionary and all of these words are grammatically correct.

"... nurtured their leaves turning them brightly yellow with green."
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. The healthy condition of the leaves depends on the variety of plant. If it's variegated then 'yellow with green' is fine.
Are they being turned from green to yellow? Or, yellow to green?

Answer 4

change to, "ready to BURST forth a loud cry if AWAKENED."
Sounds better that way.
As for the second one, "turning them brightly yellow WITH green" doesn't make sense. Try changing "with" to "and".

Answer 5

...loud cry if awakened.


"woken" isn't a real word.



Kent in SD,
writer for a magazine