deceased
ya that's it
sleeping
asleep
They were going to pretend to be businessmen.
There are three syllables in the word pretending.
No, the word 'asleep' is an adverb, a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb; and an adjective, a word that describes a noun.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
pretending, make-believe
Friar Lawrence told Juliet that she should take the sleeping pills he gives her, then she will be carried to her bedroom. When the nurse finds her, she will think she is dead because she is so asleep. Then she will be carried to a mortuary. Word will be sent to Romeo that she is pretending she is dead and which mortuary. Everything works except the word about Juliet does not get through. So when Romeo finds of Juliet's death, he goes to the mortuary. Thinking she is dead, he kills himself on the sleeping pills that Juliet has taken. After that, Juliet awakens, and, finding Romeo dead, kills herself with his dagger.
alive
Dead to the world means sleeping soundly. One example of a sentence with the idiom dead to the word is: After working a double shift, Sarah fell asleep and was dead to the world.
"asleep" is a verb
dead body
dead body