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Which is correct an advice or some advice?
In Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, “advice” is uncountable noun, so “Some advice” is the correct one.
Is pieces of advice plural?
In the sense of “recommendation” or “counsel”, it is an uncountable noun and has no plural form. To pluralize it, say something like “words of advice” or “pieces of advice”. It has two other senses, however, which do have a plural form, which is “advices”. In the first one, it means “news” or “information”.
Why do we say a piece of advice?
If you give someone advice, you tell them what you think they should do in a particular situation.
What is the example of piece of advice?
Let me give you a piece of advice. Let me give you some advice. I didn’t know who to turn to for help.
What is the synonym of the word advice?
synonyms for word of advice buzz. clue. cue. dope.
What are some other words for advice?
Synonyms of advice
- adjuration,
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- counsel,
- guidance,
- input.
Is advice a plural?
‘Advice’ is a noun meaning “an opinion or suggestion about what someone should do.” Advice is a noncount noun (or mass noun) which means it does not have a plural form.
Which is correct – some advice or some advices?
So, Which is correct? In Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, “advice” is uncountable noun, so “Some advice” is the correct one. However, googling “some advices” returns 400K results and in fact many formal English articles / news use “some advices” as in this article on Yahoo News: “Real World 101: What Every Graduate Should Know”.
Is adviceadvice singular or plural?
Advice is mainly used with the first meaning, and in this meaning it is a mass noun (that is, it has no plural). The business/legal meaning, however, is a count noun: it has a plural form, advices. Tip 1: there are just two possible forms for the noun: advice and advices.
What does ‘let me give you a piece of advice’ mean?
‘Let me give you a piece of advice, my dear!’. How often we have heard that! It lets us suppose that somebody is ‘sick and tired’ about something or someone who insists on doing, or saying the wrong thing.
Is advice countable or uncountable noun?
In the following extract from “Oxford dictionaries”, however, they hint at a legal/business usage of advice as a countable noun. The central difference between advice and advise is that the spelling advice, with -ice at the end, is the standard English spelling for the noun, but never for the verb.