[Grammar] I just woke up of a nap

[Sneymarin]

Hello, I was chatting in a discord server when someone wrote "I just woke up of a nap." I decided to correct him and wrote that he should have said "I have just woken up from a nap", to which a native speaker said that it would be better to say "I just woke up from a nap" because it sounded more natural. I would like to hear your opinions on which sentence is more correct and sounds natural.

Thank you for your time.

 

[GoesStation]

They both work, but I've would be more natural than the un-contracted form.

 

[Yankee]

I'm with the "native speaker".

 

[GoesStation]

This native speaker would probably use the past simple: I just woke up from a nap.

 

[Tarheel]

This native speaker would probably use the past simple: I just woke up from a nap.

I've probably said just that.
:up:

 

[emsr2d2]

I'd use the present perfect there too. I know there's a BrE/AmE difference in the use of the present perfect versus the past simple.

BrE = This is the best pizza I've ever eaten.
AmE = This is the best pizza I ever ate.

(Note that I have made a generalisation. I'm sure there are some AmE speakers who would use the same tense as BrE speakers.)

 

[GoesStation]

BrE = This is the best pizza I've ever eaten.
AmE = This is the best pizza I ever ate.

(Note that I have made a generalisation. I'm sure there are some AmE speakers who would use the same tense as BrE speakers.)

Only the present perfect works for me there, but I'm pretty sure many Americans would use the past simple.

 

[Rover_KE]

By a strange coincidence, this question was also asked here, shortly after you'd received GS's reply.

 

[YAMATO2201]

By a strange coincidence, this question was also asked here, shortly after you'd received GS's reply.

Not a strange coincidence. After I had read post #1, I asked one of my friends, whose English is better than mine, about the OP's example. She said that "out of" was better than "from". This is why I asked at the WR forum.

 

[emsr2d2]

If your friend thinks that "I just woke up out of a nap" is good English, perhaps she should join the forum too.

Out of curiosity, why didn't you just bring that up in a follow-up post in this thread, rather than going over to WR?

 

[YAMATO2201]

Out of curiosity, why didn't you just bring that up in a follow-up post in this thread, rather than going over to WR?

Because I thought that my question could irritate Sneymarin.

 

[Sneymarin]

Because I thought that my question could irritate Sneymarin.

There is no reason for me to get irritated. If your friend would have been correct, I would have only benefitted from learning that I should use "out of" instead of "from". We're all here to learn after all.

 

[YAMATO2201]

There is no reason for me to get irritated. If your friend would have been correct, I would have only benefitted from learning that I should use "out of" instead of "from". We're all here to learn after all.

Thank you very much, Sneymarin.

After my friend's suggestion, I went to COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) and saw the following sentence:

One night in the wee hours of the morning, she woke up out of her sleep and left her and Compton's bedroom to go to
(emphasis mine)

This sentence motivated me to ask my question.

 

[Tarheel]

Abe: You sound sleepy.
Barbara: I just woke up.

Other than a coma, the only thing we wake up from is sleep.

If it's a story, chances are the context would tell us the person had been sleeping. (Maybe that writer was getting paid by the word.)