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What does Raise mean?
Raise means to lift something, make it higher, or bring it forward.
Dictionary definition
To lift or make something higher, bring up a topic, collect something, or help a person, animal, or plant grow; also, especially in North America, a pay increase.
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Raise in a sentence
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The coach raised the net before practice.
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Our class raised money for the community garden.
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Lena raised a question about how the evidence was collected.
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The farmer raises seedlings in a warm greenhouse.
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Commonly confused words
Raise or rise?
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Raise
To cause something to move up or become greater.
In a sentence The stage crew will raise the curtain.
Rise
To move up or become greater without a direct object.
In a sentence The curtain will rise at seven.
Spot the difference Raise normally takes an object: someone raises something. Rise normally has no direct object: the subject itself moves upward or becomes greater.
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1Sunny weather may ___ the temperature inside the greenhouse.
Check answer 1
raise — The weather causes an object, the temperature, to become higher.
2The temperature may ___ quickly inside the greenhouse.
Check answer 2
rise — The temperature itself becomes higher, so rise has no direct object.
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Practice 1
What does raise mean in “raise the flag”?
Raise describes someone causing the flag to move upward.
Practice 2
Which sentence uses raise correctly?
Raise normally takes an object; here, the object is the screen.
Practice 3
Choose the correct verb: The organizers hope to ___ enough money for art supplies.
Raise takes the object money and can mean collect it for a purpose.
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Partverb, noun.
MeaningRaise means to lift something, make it higher, or bring it forward.
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Raise word family
Base word
raise
verb
raises
The present-tense form used with he, she, or it.
verb
raised
The regular past-tense and past-participle form.
verb
raising
The -ing form; the final e is dropped before -ing.
noun
raiser
A person or thing that raises something, often in compounds such as fundraiser.
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Hint for students
Look for the thing being lifted, increased, discussed, collected, or cared for. If the verb has that object, raise is usually the right choice.
Common mix-up
Raise is normally transitive in standard learner uses: someone raises something. Its forms are raise, raised, raised—not rise, rose, risen. In North American English a salary increase is a raise; British English commonly uses rise.
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Students match subject, verb, and object cards to build raise sentences for lifting, increasing, collecting money, raising a question, and caring for living things. They then remove the cause and rewrite suitable movement or increase examples with rise.
Teacher prompt
Compare “The student raised the shade” with “The shade rose.” Who or what causes the upward movement in each sentence, and which verb takes an object?
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