asleep

«asleep» in Mova's school dictionary: Sleeping — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (asleep — only after a verb: be asleep, fall asleep)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sleeping. tree →

2) Of an arm or leg: numb and tingly because you sat on it too long: «My foot is asleep». tree →

sense in the lessons

In health lessons: children need about 9–12 hours of sleep; screens and sugar before bed make it harder to fall asleep; a regular bedtime helps. In safety: don't fall asleep in the sun or in the bath; drivers must not fall asleep. In stories: Sleeping Beauty was asleep for a hundred years. Phrases: fall asleep, fast asleep, sound asleep, half asleep, asleep at the wheel.

examples

• The baby is asleep. tree →
• I fell asleep during the film. tree →
• Shh — Grandpa is fast asleep. tree →
• Turn off screens an hour before bed so you fall asleep easily. tree →
• My leg went to sleep and now it's tingly. tree →
• The cat was sound asleep on the sofa. tree →
• Bears are asleep for much of the winter. tree →
• Are you still asleep? tree →
• And he fell asleep again directly. tree →

note

Use it after the verb: «The dog is asleep», not «the asleep dog» (say «the sleeping dog»). Opposite: awake. «Fast asleep» means deeply asleep, not quickly. «Fall asleep» — past: fell asleep.

In the corpora

• By eight o'clock Mum is asleep on the sofa with the telly still on.
• Many share a sofa, and some curl up asleep on the same rug, especially if they met when young.
• Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.
• The sudden jerk as you fall asleep is a common, harmless muscle twitch, and nobody is sure why it happens.
• Your dog is fast asleep on the rug, but its paws are paddling, its lips twitch and it gives tiny muffled woofs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «asleep» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.