Признаки существительного:
- Сочетается с притяжательным местоимением:
And after that, I made ready, and went to my sleep, having sweet thoughts and slumbrous, of the Maid. Now I slept very quiet that time, and was not over troubled with the chill of the Gorge, which was but little in that place, ...
- С описательным определением абстрактное существительное приобретает неопределённый артикль:
Over that night, he slept several times, and he woke up several times, and when he was awake, he thought about it over and over, until he made his decision. He was calmer upon making that decision, and he went to a deep sleep.
- В аналогичных по смыслу/структуре выражениях сочетаются с однозначными предлогами:
Come from sleep as if returning from a far country —Mary Hedin
Came out of a deep sleep slowly, like a diver pausing at each successive level —Norman Garbo
Fell into a sleep as blank as paving-stone —Patrick White
Мб и глагол:
- Сочетается с наречием:
A typical comment was as follows : “ Don't know whether I'm tired or what - but can go to sleep soundly in five minutes any time I lie down.
As soon as he was gone and I saw he had no notion of hanging me, I laid down in the shade and went to sleep soundly. The next thing I knew he had me by the chain using a beach limb as usual, swearing Reunion and Abandonment 19.
Странно, что не вспомнилось гораздо более неопределённое go to work..))
Эти - существительные более определённо:
A first group of low yielding cows went to grass on 17 March. Up to 60 cows should be at grass by the end of the month.
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