This document provides guidance on how to give advice. It defines advice as opinions, beliefs, values, or recommendations offered to guide another's actions or conduct. The document then offers phrases and structures for giving advice, such as using "should", "ought to", "why don't you", or "how about" for mild suggestions, and "must" or "have to" for stronger recommendations. It also discusses using "suggest" and "recommend" in the first or third person, as well as using imperative verbs plus "-ing" to directly advise someone through phrases like "start", "stop", "consider", and "try".

1. HOW TO GIVE AN ADVICE?
By: Diana M. Sierra Ortiz.
What is an Advice?
Advice (also called exhortation) is a
form of relating personal or institutional
opinions, belief systems, values,
recommendations or guidance about
certain situations relayed in some
context to another person, group or
party often offered as a guide to action
and/or conduct. Put a little more
simply, an advice message is a
recommendation about what might be
thought, said, or otherwise done to
address a problem, make a decision,
or manage a situation.
Here are some ways which we can
give advice or make
recommendations:
For example, imagine that your friend
is worried that she is getting fat. She
asks you for some advice. You can
respond using the following phrases:
• You should take some
exercise.
• You ought to eat more fruit and
vegetables.
• Why don't you go jogging?
• How about eating less sugary
food?
For stronger advice you can use
'have to' or 'must':
• You must see a doctor.
• You have to take her to see that
movie. She'll love it!
Using suggest and recommend
There are two ways which we can use
'recommend' and 'suggest':
• I suggest taking a holiday.
• I suggest (that) you take a
holiday.
• I recommend going to bed
earlier.
• I recommend (that) you go to
bed earlier.
Using imperatives to give advice
We can use imperative verbs + '-ing' to
give advice. Let's look at some more
examples using your fat friend!:
• Start going to the gym.
• Stop drinking so much coke.
• Consider switching to brown
bread and rice.
• Try cycling to work.
Bibliography:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_(opinion)
• http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/giving-advice