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Food prices ___ again this month.

  • A.have raised
  • B.have been raising
  • C.have been rising
  • D.have arose

Answer: C

The sentence is Food prices have been rising again this month.

Prices rise by themselves: 'rise' is intransitive and takes no object. The present perfect continuous 'have been rising' describes a process that started earlier and is still going on, which suits 'again this month'.

'Raise' is transitive and needs an object (the shops raised prices), so 'have raised' and 'have been raising' leave the verb without one. 'Have arose' uses the past tense 'arose' where the past participle 'arisen' is needed, so it is ungrammatical.

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