English Vocabulary: Raise, Rise, Arise. These three verbs can be very confusing. So, let’s break them down one by one.
Raise
- Raise is a regular verb, which means that raised is the past and past participle.
- It is a transitive verb which means that an object must follow the verb. This is the main difference between raise and rise. To learn more about transitive verbs click here.
- We need to raise something.
- He raised his hand. (hand is the object)
- The government raised taxes (taxes is the object)
Rise
- Rise is a irregular verb. Rose is the past tense and risen the past participle.
- It is intransitive, so it is not followed by an object. Click here to learn more.
- The temperature is rising. (no object needed)
- She rose. (no object needed)
Arise
- Arise, like rise, is an irregular verb. Arose is the past tense and arisen is the past participle .
- It is also intransitive, so it is not followed by an object.
- Arise means that something presents itself.
- Should the need arise, … (should the need present itself…)
Collocations
It’s important to learn vocabulary in context. So, here are some of the words that tend to ‘collocate’ with Raise, Rise and Arise.
Raise
- a question, a point,
- I would like to raise a question here.
- your hand, her leg, their heads
- Please raise your hand if you know the answer.
- standards
- If you want to past the audit, your company must raise its standards.
Rise
- dramatically, markedly, sharply, significantly, steeply, substantially
- Profits rose substantially in the third quarter.
- a little, slightly, higher, steadily, fast, quickly, rapidly
- Sales dropped rapidly during the pandemic.
- be expected to, be likely/unlikely to, be projected to, be set to, begin to, continue to
- The number of people is unlikely to rise this late in the year.
- above, by, from, in, in line with, to
Arise
- naturally, spontaneously, directly
- Sometime bad behaviour at school arises spontaneously.
- may, might, be linkely to, be unlikely to
- Disagreements are likely to arise out of a debate.
- from, out of
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