Awaken commonly takes to for awareness and from for leaving sleep. By usually introduces the cause of waking.
Use awaken to for becoming aware of something, awaken from for coming out of sleep, and awaken by to name what caused the waking. Awaken in and awaken at are usually separate time or place details, not fixed combinations.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use to when someone starts to understand or notice a fact, problem, or possibility.
Use from for the state a person comes out of.
Use by before the sound, event, or person that woke someone.
In and at can appear after awaken as ordinary place or time adjuncts, not as fixed verb-preposition combinations.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
To usually means becoming aware, not leaving sleep.
✕ He awakened to a deep sleep. ✓ He awakened from a deep sleep.By introduces the cause of waking, while from names the previous state.
✕ She awakened from loud music. ✓ She awakened by loud music.In usually gives location information after awaken.
✓ He awakened in a crowded room.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Usually, yes. It commonly refers to becoming aware of an idea or situation.
Yes. At night is a time expression, not a fixed verb-preposition combination.
They have different meanings. By gives the cause of waking, while from names the previous state.
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