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Advice vs Advise

Can you advise me?

Look: Can you advise me? A helper stands before the place, so the action word fits.

Forms

  • Can you advise me? — a helper before the gap: the action word
  • She gave me some good advice. — a determiner or adjective: the thing word
  • some advice, two pieces of advice — the thing word is not counted in pieces by itself

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A common mistake

Wrong: Can you advice me?

Right: Can you advise me?

A common mistake is to write the thing word after a helper. We say: Can you advise me?

More examples

My teacher advised me to read more.

The action word in a story: My teacher advised me to read more.

That was useful advice for my trip.

An adjective before the place: That was useful advice for my trip.

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