Usage of 'advice' and 'advise'



 'Advice' is noun which means to give opinion to someone or somebody in order to help the latter to take a course of action. 'Advise' is a verb which means to give advice.  ‘s’ is used in verb form while ‘c’ is used in noun form.

'Advice' and 'advise' is one of the most mistaken pair of words used in English language.

The distinction between the two is predominant in British English. The same difference applies to ‘practice’ ( noun ) and ‘practise’ ( verb) and ‘licence’ ( noun) and ‘license’ (verb).

In American English, this distinction is not common and “‘s’ word” ( advise, practise, license etc) is generally used as both verb and noun.

3 comments:

  1. So which is correct:

    Can you give me an advice? or Can you give me an advise?

    ReplyDelete

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