Bed is being used as both the countable and uncountable meaning as in
- Simon lay in bed thinking.
- She got into bed and turned out the light.
(source: Longman)
I wonder whether this she got out of bed can be the meaning of not just she woke up, but can imply this meaning: ‘(having woken up an hour ago, and stayed in bed or on the bed) she got out of bed’.
I mean, can bed be used as a countable noun without articles as in she got out of bed (question #1)? If it can, can we say she got out of her/the bed with determiners? (question #2).
Best Answer
Question #1 is simple: Yes.
Yes, that can mean that she got off her bed of laying there for some time.
Question #2 is the tricky one.
Answering questions that ask, "Can you do X in English?" is difficult, because there are several factors at play. Depending on what X is, the answer is often:
1) Yes, you can – but that doesn't mean most native speakers would.
2) Yes, you can – but typically only in certain contexts when it makes sense.
I'm playing around with some sample sentences in my head, trying to figure out when a determiner would sound natural, and when it would sound out-of-place.
Here's what I've come up with:
Also, determiners are actually necessary when preceding an adjective modifying bed: