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Good Advice: advice and suggestions |
Giving advice and making suggestions are two different language functions, but in real life they often go together. If you are only interested in giving advice, CLICK HERE. Let’s see here some very common constructions you can use to give advice to a friend.
MUST/HAVE TO [strong advice]
You must go to the doctor immediately, that looks serious.
You have to take her to that movie, she’s going to love it.
IF I WERE YOU (+ would)
If I were you, I’d send her an e-mail saying sorry
If I were you, I wouldn’t buy that book
YOU’D BETTER (not) + bare infinitive (colloquial often: YOU BETTER...)
You’d better not call her now, she must be too angry with you
You better come to my house and ask my father
YOU’D BE CRAZY (not) TO
That girl is wonderful. You’d be crazy not to love her
The house you showed me is so expensive. You’d be crazy to buy it.
IT’S HIGH TIME YOU (+ simple past)
You can’t be with that job all your life. It’s high time you started looking for a new job.
I think it’s high time we went home, it’s too late.
SUGGEST (+ that you (should) )
I suggest that you eat more vegetables
I suggest that you should take a holiday, you look so tired
IMPERATIVES (start, stop, try, consider...) + ing
Stop drinking so much coffee, it’s not healthy
Start going to the gym
Try talking to him, you may convince him
Consider buying a new bicycle and give the old one to your little brother
Notes: In British English Advice is the noun, Advise is the verb
He always gives very good advice.
I advise you to buy the cheaper one
"Advice" is an uncountable noun, so you can’t say “an advice”, you must say “some advice” or “a piece of advice”
I’ll give you some advice, if you want to listen
That was only a piece of advice, not an order
| SHOULD You should go to the doctor, he’ll tell you what to do You shouldn’t go to bed so late, you need more sleep WHY DON’T YOU I know it’s difficult to find, but why don’t you look on the Internet? Why don’t you wait here for a moment, I’m sure she will be back very soon HOW ABOUT + ING (or YOU + bare infinitive) You look bored. How about going for a walk? We could go to the river. How about you stay here and I go and look for help? |  |
You must go to the doctor immediately, that looks serious.
You have to take her to that movie, she’s going to love it.
IF I WERE YOU (+ would)
If I were you, I’d send her an e-mail saying sorry
If I were you, I wouldn’t buy that book
YOU’D BETTER (not) + bare infinitive (colloquial often: YOU BETTER...)
You’d better not call her now, she must be too angry with you
You better come to my house and ask my father
YOU’D BE CRAZY (not) TO
That girl is wonderful. You’d be crazy not to love her
The house you showed me is so expensive. You’d be crazy to buy it.
IT’S HIGH TIME YOU (+ simple past)
You can’t be with that job all your life. It’s high time you started looking for a new job.
I think it’s high time we went home, it’s too late.
SUGGEST (+ that you (should) )
I suggest that you eat more vegetables
I suggest that you should take a holiday, you look so tired
IMPERATIVES (start, stop, try, consider...) + ing
Stop drinking so much coffee, it’s not healthy
Start going to the gym
Try talking to him, you may convince him
Consider buying a new bicycle and give the old one to your little brother
Notes: In British English Advice is the noun, Advise is the verbHe always gives very good advice.
I advise you to buy the cheaper one
"Advice" is an uncountable noun, so you can’t say “an advice”, you must say “some advice” or “a piece of advice”
I’ll give you some advice, if you want to listen
That was only a piece of advice, not an order
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