Substitute the underlined segment with the most appropriate option. If no substitution is required, select ‘No substitution’. India’s rice exports rised sharply in the last quarter.
rose
The verb rise is irregular. Its three forms are rise – rose – risen. There is no such form as rised; that is a regular -ed ending wrongly applied to an irregular verb.
Which form does the sentence need? The phrase in the last quarter fixes a completed period in the past, so the simple past is required. That form is rose.
Corrected sentence: India's rice exports rose sharply in the last quarter. This is the answer.
Why the other three fail:
No substitution — cannot be chosen, since rised is not an English word at all.
risen — this is the past participle, and a participle cannot stand alone as the main verb. It needs an auxiliary before it, as in have risen or had risen.
have rose — this is the closest-looking rival and combines two errors: an auxiliary paired with the simple past instead of the participle. The correct pairing would be have risen, though even that would clash with in the last quarter.
A related caution: do not confuse rise with raise. Rise is intransitive and takes no object — prices rose. Raise is transitive and needs one — the shop raised its prices. Its forms are the regular raise – raised – raised.
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