June 1, 2020

One Of Those Important Pieces Of Clarity That I Like To Read

“To raise … means to lift or move something or someone upward. It also means to increase.”

whereas

To rise … means to move upward or to increase.

The definition of ‘raise’ includes the words ‘something’ and ‘someone’. i.e. something or someone is causing the upward movement of something else, whereas with ‘rise’, the cause is not stated.


🗂 observations


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