A writing MC question

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<p>Sorry for disturbance everyone, but I had trouble with the following questions:</p>

<p>[The flag is risen each morning over government buildings in Washington.]
B. Each morning the flag is rising over government buildings in Washington.
C. The flag is raised each morning over government buildings in Washington.</p>

<p>Correct: C.</p>

<p>Students in the origami class selected colorful sheets of paper, [creased and folded it carefully, and thus had created] fanciful animal shapes.
B. then creased and folded them carefully to create
E. creased and folded them carefully, thus they created</p>

<p>Correct: B.</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>This is basically a TOEFL question: do you know the conjugations of “rise”? If so, then you can easily spot that the original uses the pp where it should use the simple past.</p></li>
<li><p>The original has a pronoun error. E is a comma splice (two independent clauses connected with a comma but no FANBOYS coordinating conjunction).</p></li>
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<ol>
<li>The flag rises or is raised…</li>
<li>E sounds awkward</li>
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<p>@marvin10

  1. That still doesn’t explain why “the flag is rising” is wrong. “Rising” is present continuous, so it should be okay?</p>
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<p>No answers?</p>

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<p>“each day” is not the continuous now, so the correct sentence wud b</p>

<p>each morn the flag rises blah blah blah
each morn the flag is raised blah blah blah</p>

<p>rising would only be used if the flag was being raised in the now </p>

<p>like</p>

<p>“the flag is rising NOW”</p>

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<p>‘is rising’ is present progressive, each morning is simple present so ‘is raised’ should be used</p>