Choose the correct collocation: The ministry initiated a national campaign to ______ awareness regarding diabetes screening and prevention.

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. raise

  1. Step 1: Identify fixed idiom in communication and public health: 'raise awareness'.
  2. Step 2: Select the transitive verb 'raise'.
  3. Step 3: Note that 'rise' is intransitive.
Answer
raise.
Why not the others: 'rise' cannot take an object; 'grow' and 'build' are non-standard in this established collocation.

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