Language structures – Giving Advice

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If you don’t know what to do and want some advice you can ask the following questions:

• What shall I do?
• What should I do?
• What do you think I should do?
• Could you give me some/a piece of advice*?
• (*Note: advice is uncountable in English, so there is no ’an advice’!)

If you’d like to give advice you can use the following structures:

• I think you should…..
• I think you shouldn’t ……..
• Why don’t you…………?
• You could………
• If I were you I would…..
• I think it would be good if you……….*

(*use the second conditional – past form – after “if” !)

Example dialogue:

• I have broken my car. I need to go to work tomorrow. What shall I do?
• If I were you I would ask my parents to lend their car. Or if they want to use it, I think it would be good if you used public transport.
• Thanks for the advice, I’ll think about it.

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