"Advice" or "advices" – singular or plural?
Jakub Marian
Slightly surprisingly, “
His advice was very helpful.
His advices were very helpful.
Thus, we speak about the amount of advice, not the “number of advices”:
I didn't receive much advice .
I didn't receive many advices.
Since it is uncountable, we cannot say “an advice”. We would usually say just “advice” (without an article), or, if it is necessary to emphasize that we think about it as about one piece of information, we use “piece of advice”:
This was good advice .
This was a good piece of advice .
This was a good advice.
A few more examples of usage:
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