Apr 29, 2021 · Which sentence below is grammatically correct? I didn't answer your questions because I had fallen asleep early last night. I didn't answer your questions because I fell …

Dec 21, 2013 · I would say "fall asleep" the first time, and then "fall back to sleep" if awakened. Saying "fall back asleep" sounds wrong to me in a similar way to " (I tripped but am) back …

Jan 19, 2017 · A fair few of those are by obviously non-native writers, and many of the ones that aren't seem to be the result of mixing up falling asleep and getting to sleep. There are only a …

Oct 15, 2015 · We fall asleep, we fall in love, we fall sick, we fall silent. And looking in the OED, it used to be the case the we fell angry and fell mad. It seems that this use of fall was …

Feb 13, 2020 · 1 "Fall asleep" suggests it simply happened, perhaps unintentionally e.g. "Accidents are caused by people falling asleep whilst driving". However "to fall asleep" is also …

One minor difference in meaning -- generally you only use asleep to mean actually unconscious. The word sleeping is sometimes used to refer to being in bed and going to sleep without …

I have been using slept off to mean that I fell asleep. For example, I slept off early yesterday. Is that used correctly?

Nov 27, 2017 · If you are asleep at 10pm when, for example, someone telephones you, you would say "I was sleeping" when you called. Insomnia is a common enough problem that there are …

Sep 14, 2015 · My husband was sound asleep. According to Merriam Webster, the word "sound" in "sound asleep" is an adverb. What part of speech, then, is "asleep"? ("Asleep" can only be …

Jul 4, 2012 · There is a sentence: No sooner had he sat down than he fell asleep. I just do not understand, is this an inversion? And if so, I still do not understand the sentence.