Choose the correct collocation: The ministry published a comprehensive report to ______ awareness about water conservation.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. raise
- Step 1: Identify the required transitive verb: The object is 'awareness'.
- Step 2: Analyze verb properties: 'Raise' is transitive (takes an object) and forms the fixed collocation 'raise awareness'.
- Step 3: 'Rise' and 'arise' are intransitive verbs and cannot take a direct object.
Answer
raise.
Why not the others: 'rise' is intransitive; 'arise' means to come into existence (intransitive); 'elevate' means to lift physically or promote rank and is not the standard idiom with 'awareness'.
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