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Question 31

The charity hopes to ___ enough money to repair the community pool.

  1. rise
  2. raiseCorrect answer
  3. lay
  4. lie

Explanation

The charity intends to cause the amount of money to increase, so raise takes money as its object. Rise is intransitive and cannot directly govern the thing being increased.

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