---
title: "Edit text: waking up at night"
subject: "Communication English"
chapter: 3
key: "semester_5/communication_english:edit-text-stupid-and-worrying"
source: https://www.bctengineer.com/q/semester_5/communication_english/edit-text-stupid-and-worrying
site: BCT Engineering
---

# Edit text: waking up at night

Communication English · Chapter 3: Contextual Grammar

- Asked in: 2079 Baishakh, 5 marks
- Answer checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (high effort) on 2026-10-14
- Page: https://www.bctengineer.com/q/semester_5/communication_english/edit-text-stupid-and-worrying
- Whole chapter: https://www.bctengineer.com/md/semester_5/communication_english/chapter-3

## Question

Edit the following text.
How stupid and worrying it is he thought when he wake up and look at the dark windows ... here I have have a good sleep for some reason. What shall I do tonight.

## Short answer

"How stupid and worrying it is," he thought, when he woke up and looked at the dark windows. "... Here I have had a good sleep for some reason. What shall I do tonight?"

## Answer

#### Edited text
"How stupid and worrying it is," he thought, when he woke up and looked at the dark windows. "... Here I have had a good sleep for some reason. What shall I do tonight?"

#### Corrections made
- Quotation marks and a comma added to show his thoughts, with a comma after "thought".
- "wake up" changed to "woke up" and "look" to "looked" (past tense, parallel with "thought").
- "have have" corrected to "have had" (present perfect).
- A question mark placed after "What shall I do tonight".

## Check yourself

The answer's key points as multiple-choice questions, with the correct option and why.

1. 'when he wake up and look at the dark windows' should be:
   A. when he woke up and looked at
   B. when he wakes up and looked at
   C. when he waking up and look at
   D. when he will wake up and look at
   Answer: A. The narrative is in the past, parallel with 'thought', so both verbs are in the simple past. (Key point: Tense)

2. 'I have have a good sleep' is corrected to:
   A. I have had a good sleep
   B. I have has a good sleep
   C. I had have a good sleep
   D. I have having a good sleep
   Answer: A. Present perfect is have + past participle: have had. (Key point: Present perfect)

3. How should his thoughts be punctuated?
   A. Quotation marks with a comma after 'is' and after 'thought'
   B. Brackets
   C. No change
   D. A colon after every word
   Answer: A. Thoughts are marked like speech: quotation marks and commas around the reporting words. (Key point: Showing thoughts)

4. What ends 'What shall I do tonight'?
   A. A full stop
   B. A question mark
   C. A comma
   D. An exclamation mark
   Answer: B. It is a direct question, so it needs a question mark. (Key point: Question mark)

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