Check Word suggestions on 'Advise' and 'advice' in sentences

[Guest]

The word suggestions on usage of 'Advise' and 'Advice' is misleading.


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[Graham Mayor]

In what way? Advise is a verb, advice a noun.
Use the wrong one here and the grammar check throws up an error suggestion.

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[Guest]

Is it wrong to say ?
"Please advise" ? If so then its fine. The suggestion given is to change
to "Please advice".

 

[Graham Mayor]

Hmmm. Clearly that is wrong

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[Jezebel]

That's nothing to do with 'advise' and 'advice' -- just the problem of
trying to determine the syntax of a sentence fragments. Natural language
parsing is still a very primitive science.

 

[Guest]

But 'Please work' or 'Please check' is working fine.. but not 'Please
advise'. so i stil think ther is a problem in these two words. Even though
the language parsing is not very advanced, these things are basic right ?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Could it be that grammar check thinks that advise requires an object,
such as: Please advise *me*?

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