ADVICE VS. ADVISE

Advice and Advise

There is often confusion over the words advice and advise.

Advice

The word advice is a noun meaning a suggestion for a beneficial course of action.

(Advice rhymes with mice.)

Examples:

Take my advice. I don't use it anyway.

• He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
• Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it.

 

 

Advise

The word advise is a verb meaning to give advice. (It rhymes with prize.) To advise can also mean to notify (e.g., I advised him I was leaving.)

Examples:

• I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

• The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

• Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

• Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.