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Alcohol can act as Bronsted base. Prove this statement.

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Alcohols can also act as a Bronsted bases. It is due to the presence of unshared electron pairs on oxygen which make them to accept proton. So proton acceptor are Bronsted bases. i. e., alcohols are Bronsted bases.

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