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half asleep
not fully awake
If you are half asleep, you are not fully awake or alert.
Hear it in real life
Did you hear what I said?
Sorry, I was half asleep.
I was half asleep when the alarm went off, so I nearly turned it off by mistake.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I was half sleep when you called.
Say: I was half asleep when you called.
Use the adjective "asleep" in the fixed phrase "half asleep," not the noun "sleep."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be half asleep; answer the phone half asleep
Your turn: say it out loud
I was half asleep when the alarm went off, so I nearly turned it off by mistake.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
half asleep
not fully awake
“I was half asleep when the alarm went off, so I nearly turned it off by mistake.”
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