[Grammar] Awake from a bad dream

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I awoke from a bad dream last night.
I have awoken from a bad dream last night.
I had awoken from a bad dream last night.

İs "awake from a bad dream" regular English?

And which tense should I use in that sentence?
 

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The verb tense very much depends on context. Do you have some for us?
 

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"To awake from a bad dream" is natural English. We also say "to be awoken by a bad dream".

As Mike said, context dictates the right tense. Having said that, #2 doesn't work in any context (and I'm struggling to make #3 sound natural).
 

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Assume that I tell a friend what happened last night.

-I had awoken from a bad dream and I went to kitchen to drink water and saw a stranger in my garden.
 

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That's fine but your original sentence was "I had awoken from a bad dream last night". That doesn't work.
 

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That's fine but your original sentence was "I had awoken from a bad dream last night". That doesn't work.

İf there is "last night" in sentence which tense should I use?

I had awoken from a bad dream last night and I went to kitchen to drink water.

Last night, I had awoken from a bad dream and I went to kitchen to drink water.

I was awoken by a bad dream last night and I went to kitchen to drink water.

Are they natural?
 
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I awoke from a bad dream last night.
I have awoken from a bad dream last night.
I had awoken from a bad dream last night.


Setting aside the grammar considerations, all three make it sound like you had a bad dream last night and then you awoke- probably in the morning. Nothing unusual about that.

Better to change the word order and switch to the passive to make it more clear:

Last night I was awakened by a bad dream. I went to the kitchen to drink some water and saw a stranger in my garden.
 
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