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"Advice" o "advices": singular o plural en anglès

Sorprenentment, "advice" en anglès és un substantiu incontable (similar a "water" o "sand"), i com a tal no es pot utilitzar en plural:

His advice was very helpful.
His advices were very helpful.

Per això parlem de "amount of advice", no de "number of advices":

I didn't receive much advice.
I didn't receive many advices.

Com que és incontable, no podem dir "an advice". Normalment simplement diem "advice" (sense article), o si necessitem destacar que es tracta d'una sola informació, utilitzem "piece of advice":

This was good advice.
This was a good piece of advice.
This was a good advice.

Alguns altres exemples d'ús:

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