Difference between rise and raise

[Pierre]

Test No. errors/inter-10 "Is she lying?", question 2

I simply can't believe it but I'm afraid that it's official now that the government is going to rise the tax on petrol yet again.

(a) simply
(b) official
(c) rise
(d) yet again

Test No. errors/inter-10 "Is she lying?", answer 2

I simply can't believe it but I'm afraid that it's official now that the government is going to raise the tax on petrol yet again.

Correct entry: raise
The error was: (c) rise

You have not found the error.
I simply can't believe it but I'm afraid that it's official now that the government is going to rise the tax on petrol now again.
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What the different between: "rise" and "raise" ?

Danke,

Pierre

[Torsten]

Hi Pierre,

Please take a look at these two sentences:

The Sun rises in the east.
The government is raising the taxes.

As you can see the verb rise is intransisitive, this means, it doesn't require an object.
The verb raise is transitive, this means, it needs an object. (in our case the object is the taxes).

Also, please take a look at these posts:
http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic2277.html
http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic1690.html
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[Guest]

what about bread rising?

[Torsten]

You are probably referring to 'salt-rising bread'.
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[Rich7]

Just in case you need it:

'salt-rising bread':

white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp.

[Chaitanyesh]

The difference is this: raise has an object and rise doesn't have one. An object is an answer to the transitive verb that is present in the sentence that is used.

As examples, we'll take these statements:

I raised my head
The sun rises in the east

The first sentence can have the passive form " My head was raised {by me)," whereas,
The second one can't have. Therefore, raise always has an object, while rise doesn't have.

Some more examples:

She raised the question in the assembly.
The personnel raised the pipe.
He raised the children.

ALL THESE HAVE PASSIVE FORMS

He rose in indignation.
The sun rises in the east.
There is no day the sun never rises.

ALL THESE DO NOT HAVE PASSIVE FORMS.