Test your own grammar in sentences: Rise or Raise?

Check out your grammar capability! Choose the right one:  RISE or RAISE?

(source from English Grammar Quizzes: level V)

 

    1.   In ancient Rome, the peasants ___ up against the Emperor many times.

    a.  raise   b. raised   c. rose                 

 

     2.   He is an early ___ but he hates to stay up late.

         a.   riser     b. roser   c. raiser

 

     3.   Gradually the beanstalk ___ higher and higher until it reached the sky.

         a.   rise     b. rose    c. raise

 

 

     4.   To taste good, bread must ___ properly.

         a.   rise    b. be raised   c. raise

 

     5.   He had ___ flowers every year until this year. Now he grows only vegetables.

         a.   risen   b. raised   c. rised

  

     6. The flag ___ every morning at 6:00 a.m. until yesterday.

         a.   raised     b. was rised     c. was raised

 

     7.   The temperature has ___ all day long.

         a.   rose   b. risen   c. raised

 

     8.   Higher inflation usually ___ prices.

         a.   raised   b. raises   c. rises

 

     9.   The army ___ its flag over the island.

          a.   rised   b. raised   c. rose

 

     10.  The sun ___ at 6:30 this morning and it was a beautiful sunrise.

           a.   raises   b. rose   c. rises

 

     11.   The government ___ interest rates for three years until yesterday.

            a.   had not raised    b. had not rose   c. had not risen

 

     12.     At the meeting the committee ___ six questions.

a.   rose   b. raised   c. rise

 

answer keys 

    1.  rose

    2.  riser

    3.  rose

    4.  rise

    5.  raised

    6.  was raised

    7. risen

    8.  raises

    9.  raised

    10.  rose

    11. had not raised

    12. raised