The phrase "confer benefit" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to give or grant an advantage or reward to someone or something. Example: The new policy aims to confer benefits to small businesses by providing tax breaks and access to resources.
"But think of all the lies that confer benefit to people: I love your new hat.
The PLoS Medicine study found that supplementing with vitamin C once an infection had set in did not seem to confer benefit.
Like some medications, certain nutrients and vitamins may need to be delivered within a specific optimal range to confer benefit, he said, a concept he and others have termed a "Goldilocks phenomenon".
Objective: To determine whether the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of propofol confer benefit in adult patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting.
As reactive oxygen species (ROS) derived from the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) are the main cause of reperfusion injury, modulation of oxidative phosphorylation (peri-revascularization) may confer benefit.
It clearly can confer benefit, but it depends how it is done, and for whom.
Rather, they confer benefits that are limited to the direct recipients of those transfers.
They survive because they confer benefits on the societies that practice them.
"They clearly confer benefits," said Dr. A. Elizabeth Arnold, a tropical ecologist at Duke University and the lead author, speaking of the fungi.
A warming of that magnitude, he and others insist, could not be very harmful, and would in fact confer benefits like longer growing seasons and faster plant growth.
(Five others, including California, have civil-union or domestic-partnership laws, which confer benefits and some official recognition without the title, and freighted significance, of marriage).
