Good day fellow nairalanders. Many a time I come across posts where these words 'advice' and 'advise' are used interchangeably . For instance, someone might want to say 'I need your advice' and we see something like 'I need your advise' which is wrong. 'Please advice me' instead of 'Please advise me'. Now the thing is, the word 'advice' is a noun and does not take 'to' modal auxiliaries such as will, would, may, can etc,. Has/have/had cannot also come before it, eg, my advice for you is this, work hard. NOT My advise for you is this, work hard. Advise is a verb which can admit 'to' and the auxiliary verbs above before it eg, I wish to advise you/I may advise you/I will advise you to... So advice seekers need to take note of these things so that we can as well, advise you. Peace.

FTC!!!



On to more important issues, OP this is a brilliant write up that would help young graduates mostly and it had me going through all my emails to make sure I wasn't falling afoul of this simple but effective rule.

OK I hear

Did you came yesterday?

I did not saw you in the party last night.


Anytime I hear stuffs like these, I wonder how the person managed to graduate FROM primary school

English nawaa

xilixr:
OK I hear

This ur comment ehn, anytym wey babe use am for me during chats, I dey vex.. its so annoying....

please advice/advise me, Which food should should I eat to work that will minimize farting.
Beans and ekór Or Beans and yam.

thank you.

English is a borrowed language so permit me to make mistake

Hmmmm, so much to learn

Interesting. When you start your day with something useful like this is it makes sense.

Noted

Good one..

Adviser take note if you like.. .

am even more confused with what is written up there,
Cus me am not understanding


if u don't understand hit like if u understand click share

Ok

Many people don't know it

These are the kind of topics we need to see on nairaland. Informative and educative. Kudos to OP.

Nice post.

I just learned something new.

Tiri gbosa 4 u!

The trick is to know that N comes before V so does C before S, With C is a noun (N), with S is a verb (V).

Once this is recognized you can go back to basics and ask yourself if you're using the word as a verb or noun.

Nice

Good but no paragraphs.

on the contrary,

"There's nothing scarier than using the toilet at
your crush's place and it refuses to flush. You'll
just be staring at your shit like. . . Please go, i'm
begging you in the name of God, just go."

nice one. knowing which is verb(advise)and a noun (advice) will really help when writing.

go to dictionary

Whether 'advice' or 'advise', as far as the other person understand what am saying, then no problem. I cannot coman kill myself over english that is not even my mother tongue.

strawgirl:
These are the kind of topics we need to see on nairaland. Informative and educative. Kudos to OP.

You're right about this, not all those "yeyebritie" showing us their bleached skin and slipper boobs...

Enlightened!

Cool.

Like they say, No knowledge is waste.

Advice or advise English ain't my first language or my mother's tongue... Omo Yoruba ni mi I speak fluently in Yoruba like kilode

nice one op, learning is a gradual process

Primary principle of language I believe, is to express and not to impress.

It is a good development however,but let's understand the language and it's dynamism first, which alot do not.

Good write up.I also learned.

Op, Nice One. But kindly space your write up next time.

And try to be more detailed.

So whch u dong correct ur mother tongue like dis? Mbok ekpong mien mme usem idung owo mbok...

In addition to that, words that have "c" and "s" cannot be used interchangebly just as the op explained. The ones with 'c' are noun while the ones with 's' are verb!

e.g:
advice/advise
device/devise
etc