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HDGD

25 February

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oh and by the way you want me to give you an advice, you should stop smoking you look older than what you supposed to be

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meesk

25 February

English (US)

Oh and by the way if you want me to give you advice, you should stop smoking. You look older than you actually are.

You could either say “advice” or “a piece of advice”

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HDGD

25 February

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@meesk

1)why not AN advice.

2)why (if you want me instead of you want me) I think I need to add just (DO) but saying (if you want me) doesn't make the sentence more natural that's just another option.

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meesk

25 February

English (US)

1) When “advice” is used alone, it’s uncountable. You can’t have one or multiple “advice”.

2) Without the if “you want me to give you advice” would be a question since it guesses at what the other person wants

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HDGD

25 February

Spanish (Spain)

@meesk that's tricky why I can't have one or multiple advices . I don't get it or what was ur point when u said accountable

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meesk

25 February

English (US)

It is a concept, so there is no number associated with it. Some other examples would be water or sand. You wouldn’t say 3 sands, it would be 3 grains of sand. Advice is the same way where it needs other words to qualify it if you want to associate it with a number. “An” or “a” always refers to 1 of something which is why it doesn’t go with advice.

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meesk

25 February

English (US)

There are many phrases that go along with advice like “a piece of” or ”a bit of” that you could use.

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HDGD

25 February

Spanish (Spain)

@meesk but with AN sounds like one is because I'm confused when u said that I can't have one or multiple advice

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meesk

25 February

English (US)

You can’t have one or multiple advice when the word is used by itself, but you can when it is used with other words. I’m sorry that I’m not explaining it well enough. Here’s an article that talks about it that might be helpful?

https://jakubmarian.com/advice-or-advices-singu...

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HDGD

25 February

Spanish (Spain)

@meesk so it should be like this.

1)oh and by the way do you want me to give you ADVISE,

2)also is (than you actually are) another option or the natural way?

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oh and by the way you want me to give you an advice, you should stop smoking you look older than what you supposed to be(does this sound natural?) See a translation

Oh and by the way if you want me to give you advice, you should stop smoking. You look older than you actually are. You could either say “advice” or “a piece of advice”

1) When “advice” is used alone, it’s uncountable. You can’t have one or multiple “advice”. 2) Without the if “you want me to give you advice” would be a question since it guesses at what the other person wants

There are many phrases that go along with advice like “a piece of” or ”a bit of” that you could use.

You can’t have one or multiple advice when the word is used by itself, but you can when it is used with other words. I’m sorry that I’m not explaining it well enough. Here’s an article that talks about it that might be helpful? https://jakubmarian.com/advice-or-advices-singu...

oh and by the way you want me to give you an advice, you should stop smoking you look older than what you supposed to be

(does this sound natural?)

See a translation

Oh and by the way if you want me to give you advice, you should stop smoking. You look older than you actually are.

You could either say “advice” or “a piece of advice”

1) When “advice” is used alone, it’s uncountable. You can’t have one or multiple “advice”.

2) Without the if “you want me to give you advice” would be a question since it guesses at what the other person wants

You can’t have one or multiple advice when the word is used by itself, but you can when it is used with other words. I’m sorry that I’m not explaining it well enough. Here’s an article that talks about it that might be helpful?

https://jakubmarian.com/advice-or-advices-singu...