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He fell asleep three times last night.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:00 am
by metal56
Is this sentence correct?

He fell asleep three times last night.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:07 pm
by Stephen Jones
Perfectly correct. Presuming the guy was a night-watchman, or maybe a passenger on a plane flight.

If he was simply in bed then we would be inclined to say He woke up twice last night., which means the same thing.