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to persuade someone to do something in English:

1. encourage encourage


Networking sites may encourage us to invent details about our social lives.
we were encourage
American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.
Please refrain from posts that might encourage conflict.
Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe.
the passage encouraged me to put away the old personality and to put on the new personality which was created according to God 's will.
to give someone the courage or confidence to do something. I want to thank everyone who has encouraged and supported me.
talk or behave in a way that makes somebody else more confident to do something; My friend encouraged me to write a novel.
In some companies, like Google and the Huffington Post, workplace naps are positively encouraged. They're seen as a way to make staff more productive.
Programs to encourage economic development include investment subsidies
The UK government is currently studying how to encourage people to change their eating habits.
module 2 is designed to encourage studens to prepare systems that will
It’s meant to encourage debate about the treatment of people with disabilities
My parents have always encouraged me in my choice of career. Banks actively encouraged people to borrow money.
It is imperative that we should encourage participatory forms of decision-making.

2. convince convince


To be convinced
You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you'll never convince me.
Though Tom's English seems quite good at times, he doesn't seem to know his limitations and it's impossible to convince him that he's wrong when he makes a mistake.
No matter how much you try to convince people that chocolate is vanilla, it'll still be chocolate, even though you may manage to convince yourself and a few others that it's vanilla.
Whoever wants to marry her must first convince her father.
The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity.
I sat down to translate the sentence shown on the main page into my native language, and half an hour and two dozen sentences later I had to convince myself to stop.
There's no way to convince him. He absolutely insists that the only way to solve the problem is his way.
And we try to convince ourselves -- we really try to convince ourselves they're wrong.
All the time, I try to convince my friends to stop playing games. It is so detrimental to health!
Your goal for the party tonight is to convince Wendy you're a mature guy.
Trump is trying to convince men they are the ‘true victims’ of #MeToo movement
​ B1 to persuade someone to do something namawiać [+ to do sth] I convinced her to go to the doctor's.
But if you said to them: "The planet he came from is Asteroid B-612," then they would be convinced, and leave you in peace from their questions.
If my parents punished me for something I didn't do, I would tell them the truth and try to convince them of my innocence.

3. induce induce


Nothing could induce him to change his mind.
Moderate exercise in the evening helps induce sleep.

English word "to persuade someone to do something"(induce) occurs in sets:

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