Advice vs advise

Advice and advise are two commonly confused words in the English language. When do you use each one?

Advice (pronounced with an "S" sound at the end)

Advice is an uncountable NOUN. It talks about something someone recommend you to do
When we have a problem, and we don't know what to do, we ask someone for their advice. We ask them what they thing is best for us to do.

Examples:

• You should talk to Laura. She always gives excellent advice.
• If you need some advice about which courses to take, you can talk to the professors.
• I didn't ask for his advice, but he told me what he thought anyway!
  

• My advice is, always follow your heart!

    

Advise(pronounced with a "Z" sound at the end)

Advise is a VERB that means to give advice. This verb must always be followed by the person we are advising. In this way, it is like the verb tell.

Michaela advises Janice to take a nice, long vacation.

If we want to say exactly what the advice was, we use to right after the listener's name, like in the example above.

Examples

• The salesman advised the customer to buy the product

• The experts advise the president about complex situations.

• If you ask Donna, I'm sure she'll advise you to report the problem.

                                                                          

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