Society
empower
give someone confidence and ability to act
To empower someone means to give them the confidence, knowledge or authority to make decisions and take action.
Hear it in real life
What is the aim of the project?
To empower local residents to improve their community.
Good teachers empower students to ask questions and think independently.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: empower someone doing something
Say: empower someone to do something
After “empower someone,” use the infinitive with “to” when describing the action they can take.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
empower someone to do something; empower people through education
Your turn: say it out loud
Good teachers empower students to ask questions and think independently.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
empower
give someone confidence and ability to act
“Good teachers empower students to ask questions and think independently.”
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