I have been waking up for a long time.

[jasonree123456]

Context:
Amy: Are you just waking up?
Benjamin: No, I have been waking up for a long time.

We do use "waking up" or "woke up" for the answering?

 

[tedmc]

The action of waking up i.e. getting up from the bed, is a short one.
It does not make sense the someone takes a long time to do that.

You can say:
I have been up/woken up for a long time.

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[JMurray]

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Ben's answer is not natural because we don't say "have been waking up" in this situation.
The conversation is more likely to be something like this.

A: Are you just waking up?
or Have you just woken up?
B: No, I've been awake for a long time.

ps: tedmc beat me. I'll leave my post up for the variation.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I don't think "I have been woken up for a long time" is natural. "Awake" is better.

 

[Raymott]

I read the original differently, though I get it now.
Benjamin: No, I have been waking up for a long time.

For someone like me who takes a while to wake up properly, Benjamin's statement could be used as humour. It's not a serious answer. It means he's been walking around like a zombie for a while. "I'm still waking up" is a very common sentence, even though the person who says it is obviously awake.

I also have to disagree with tedmc that waking up means getting out of bed. It doesn't.

 

[tedmc]

I don't think "I have been woken up for a long time" is natural. "Awake" is better.

MikeNY

I have been up/woken up for a long time.
was meant to be

I have been up for a long time.
I have woken up for a long time.

OK, 'wake up' means 'to be roused from sleep', which may not be followed by getting up from the bed immediately.
I am sure it does not take long for the average person to be roused from sleep, to be in a conscious state but still lying in bed.
Those who are in a semi-conscious state walking around like zombies are in a different category.

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[Matthew Wai]

May I simply say 'I woke up long ago'?

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[MikeNewYork]

I don't think "I have woken up for a long time" is any better.

 

[tedmc]

I get what you mean.

I woke up a long time ago. A long time has elapsed since I woke up. The waking up itself didn't take me a long time.
I was confused by the original statements.

 

[Rover_KE]

May I simply say 'I woke up long ago'?

Yes.

I don't think "I have woken up for a long time" is any better.

I think it's completely wrong.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I have woken up for a long time.

I think it's completely wrong.

Is it because 'wake up' is a momentary verb referring to an action which cannot last for a long time?

I am sure it does not take long for the average person to be roused from sleep, to be in a conscious state but still lying in bed.

I am sure that some people may remain on their beds, using their tablet computers, reading books, talking on the phone, etc.

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[tedmc]

Yes.


I think it's completely wrong.

I had corrected the sentence prior to your post.

Another possibility: It took a long time for me to wake up.

The present perfect 'have woken' is tricky. Can someone make a sentence with that?

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[Raymott]

"I have woken the children."
"I have woken many times over the last few weeks because of your dog's incessant barking."

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Some people do not get out of bed immediately after they have woken.'

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[tedmc]

'Some people do not get out of bed immediately after they have woken.'

Not a teacher.

Wouldn't the present tense be better?

Some people do not get out of bed immediately after they wake up.

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