Exploring the Differences Between Advice and Advice : Advice vs Advise: What You Need to Know

ADVICE

Advice Is a noun: to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following. When spoken, it rhymes with ‘ice’ [s]. It is best to get legal advice from your lawyer before you take any legal action.

EXAMPLE - 1

The blog gives good advice for first home buyers.

EXAMPLE - 2

My father, I thought, seemed more like a father and less like a brother with the three of them, offering them advice and slipping them cash when they needed it.

EXAMPLE - 3

A Connector might tell ten friends where to stay in Los Angeles, and half of them might take his advice.

EXAMPLE - 4

On the advice of agricultural experts and insecticide manufacturers, they chose heptachlor as the control agent.

ADVISE

Advise Is a verb: an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc. When spoken, it rhymes with ‘realise’ Mary advised me to stop taking the medicine, as it does more harm than good.

EXAMPLE - 1

Please advise her to stop smoking, as she refuses to listen to me. My teacher advised us to revise our subjects regularly. I advise my customers to sample the cookies before they buy them.

EXAMPLE - 2

One day I heard Cradle advise one whose two weeks of vacation were coming up that he “shouldn’t just sit around at home, like all the other COs do on vacation. Go somewhere.”