Question

What is the past tense of “raise”? Is it “raised” or “rose” or both?

Answer 1

Hint: Any transitive verb necessitates the use of a direct object, here ‘raise’ is transitive. As a result of which, the action is being received by someone or something. The term 'raise' refers to the act of lifting or moving to a higher place or tier. On the contrary, another verb 'to rise' is used to imply the shift from a lower to a higher stage.

Complete answer:
The verb under consideration here is ‘raise’. This verb is transitive and so it requires a direct object when used in a sentence. Example: “Let us raise our glasses and give a warm welcome to our newlywed.’ In this sentence, ‘raise’ is followed by ‘our glasses’, in a similar way, always when we use ‘raise’, we need to mention an object following it.
In the usual manner let us look at the different tenses of ‘to raise’;
Present: raise/raises
Past: raised
Future: will raise

When we think of the past tense of ‘to raise’, we directly think of ‘raised’. This is a correct usage of past tense for ‘raise’.
Example: I raised my hand to answer. In this sentence ‘my hand’ follows ‘raised’ and so ‘raised’ requires a direct object.
Example: She raised the stakes this year. In this sentence ‘the stakes’ here acts as the direct object for ‘raised’.

But we often get confused if ‘rose’ can be a past form for ‘raise’. The distinction between ‘raised’ and ‘rose’ comes from their particular infinitive verbs 'to raise' and 'to rise'.

Keep in mind that a past tense and the past participle of this given verb ‘to raise’, which originally signifies to lift itself or elevate, will be 'raised'. At the same time ‘rose’ is originally the past tense of the verb ‘rise’. In any context, ‘rise’ means to ascend from a lower to a higher position and it is an intransitive verb. So ‘rise’ does not require to be used with an object. Example: The sun rises in the east. In this sentence, there is no direct object present for the usage of ‘rise’.

The primary distinction between raised and rose is that raised is often a transitive verb, while rose is indeed an intransitive verb.

To clarify, the past tense of ‘rise’ is ‘rose’. Ascending from a lower to a higher position is known as rising. Whenever anything rises, it means it is propelling itself without the assistance of an external entity. Rise is an intransitive verb in that it does not require an object.

But there are ways in which this intransitive verb ‘rose’ can grammatically act as the past tense for the verb ‘to raise’. This is when the action ‘rose’ is transitive in nature, that is when there is an external force that acted upon the occurrence for such an action.

An example is “I rose to fame because my stand-up comedy was trending on Youtube.” Here ‘my stand-up comedy’ is the direct object, due to which such an action ‘rose to fame’ has taken place for the subject ‘I’. This same sentence can be written as: “I was raised to fame ….”.
Keep in mind that this is an exceptional case so it is not very common.
Another example is “They rose to fame due to their performance on BGT.” Here again ‘their performance’ is the direct object for ‘they rose’.

Therefore finally we can say that there is a drastic difference between each of the terms “raised” or “rose” since one of them is the past tense of ‘raise’ and the other a past tense of ‘rise’, but at the same time, they both can be used as the past tense of ‘raise’, if they both act as transitive verbs.

Hence the past tense of raise is ‘raised’

Note: Whether or not a verb needs an object to convey a complete opinion determines if it is transitive or intransitive. Then a transitive verb is one that often makes complete sense only when it acts on something else. Without one, an intransitive verb is that which makes sense. Some verbs could be used in both directions.