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[Wilson Gray]

"Well, maybe the neighbors need to be _woken_."

This leads another character to argue that the speaker should have said "awo
ken."

Why is the conjugation of  _(a)wake(n)_ such a problem, I wonder? I can't r
emember what I used before I got to high school, but what I was taught to
 use in high school was different, both from what I was taught in grade scho
ol and from what is used, today.

FWIW, I would say,

"Well, maybe the neighbors need to be _waked (up)_/_awakened_."

Youneverknow.

-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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