Advise vs. Advice
Sorry, just had to do this...
Advice (noun) is what you give someone when you advise them.
Advise (verb) is what you do when you give someone advice.
If you are attempting to become the "UHH Grammar Policeman", you have a monumental job ahead of you.
Mark
Longshadow wrote:
Sorry, just had to do this...
Advice (noun) is what you give someone when you advise them.
Advise (verb) is what you do when you give someone advice.
Good choice. You may want to have time to eat!!
Mark
Longshadow wrote:
No, just that one.
just use advize and be done with it.
tinplater wrote:
just use advize and be done with it.
That would be grammatically lazy and my old grammar teachers would not suggest it.
That would have earned me an after school meeting with Mrs. McNeirney to fill up all the chalkboards with the correct spelling. And, she would have smiled as I wrote.
Mark
tinplater wrote:
just use advize and be done with it.
I should not have any teeth left from grinding them with the advice/advise........lens/lese.............and on and on.
Swede
Loc: Trail, BC Canada
markngolf wrote:
If you are attempting to become the "UHH Grammar Policeman", you have a monumental job ahead of you.
Mark
A couple good things about being the "Grammar Cop", you'll never be unemployed, and you'll never have to worry about planning holidays!
Swede
Longshadow wrote:
Sorry, just had to do this...
Advice (noun) is what you give someone when you advise them.
Advise (verb) is what you do when you give someone advice.
Well, keep on doing it. Some of this stuff drives me nuts
[quote=Swede]Is that sirens I hear!
"...As she starts to drown, she is saved by a beautiful merman, who kisses her. Then she suddenly finds herself with a tail instead of legs. Thus begins Lyra's journey into the world of the sirens..."
From tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebComic/SirensLament
Miranda's Warning would be too long...
I want to join your effort at correct grammar. The following are my two pet peeves:
1. 'for my friend and I' is really bad grammar. Apparently there is mass amnesia about the use of the objective case in grammar. What ever happened to the word 'me' (objective case). A preposition such as 'for'
always takes the objective case. It should be 'for my friend and me'. One sees the words 'for me', never 'for I' in writing. The same rule applies all the time.
2. 'Its' is correct English, when used in the context as 'his' and 'her'. It indicates possession. 'Its quality' is correct English. 'It's nature is ungrammatical. The word 'it's' should only be used as a contraction for 'it is'.
I fear that my effort will totally be in vain. We are experiencing several generations of people living in a 'grammar-free' English-speaking world.
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