Thursday, July 29, 2010

When to use advice and advise. Is ';kindly advice'; right or ';kindly advise'; right?

When asking my boss to advice on something which sentence is right from the above?When to use advice and advise. Is ';kindly advice'; right or ';kindly advise'; right?
Advice is the noun and advise is the verb.





Kindly advise me when the widgets will be in stock.





He gave kind advice, when he recommended I buy my ticket online. It was much cheaper.When to use advice and advise. Is ';kindly advice'; right or ';kindly advise'; right?
Advice is a noun and Advise is a verb.


When you ask your boss for something to suggest a line of action to be taken by you, you may say 'Kindly advise' since advise is the action that you expect from the boss, which is that he should tell you something.


If you want to use advice, then you have to change the sentence to 'Kindly give me (or let me have) your advice'. Here you are asking for the content of what you expect from him, and so it should be the noun form that is to be used.
The correct form is ';kindly advise.';





Why?





Because ';advise'; is a verb, and ';advice'; is a noun. You cannot ';foot'; someone, you can kick them. It's the same concept.





Also, ';advise'; and ';advice'; are pronounced differently. [ad-vahyz] and 鈥?[ad-vahys], respectively.
';kindly advise'; would be correct





advice=noun


advise=verb
You use advise when it has been given as advice. You have advised someone..


So Kindly advice is right.
kindly advise would be correct.

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