Select the most appropriate option to replace the underlined part of the sentence. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No improvement’.
Since the new metro station opened, the rent of flats in our lane has risen by almost forty per cent.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → No improvement
“Rise” and “raise”:
- Rise means to go up. It never takes an object. Its forms are rise, rose, risen.
- Raise means to lift something or make it go up. It always needs an object (raise the rent).
- In this sentence, the rent goes up, and there is no object after the verb. After “has”, we use the past participle (V3), and the V3 of “rise” is “risen”. So “has risen” is correct.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: has raised — Incorrect. “Raise” needs an object, and there is none after the verb here. Example: The owner has raised the rent of our flat.
Option 2: has rose — Incorrect. “Rose” is the simple past. After “has”, the V3 form “risen” is needed.
Option 3: has been risen — Incorrect. “Rise” has no object, so it has no passive form like “been risen”.