Advse/advice counsellor/councilor explain these to me

[KatyMac]

I always get them wrong somehow - I'm not even sure my title is right

Please help?

Advise is a verb - so you advise people about things.
Advice is a noun - so you give advice.

A counsellor counsels people, so helps them out with problems.

A councillor is on the Council

HTH!

Thanks...I think....until the next time I get it wrong

I don't think there's any easy rules for remembering which is which, apart from the Council/councillor one - that's the trouble isn't it, either version looks fine!

No I don't think there is a trick either - I'll just have to get it wrong sometimes

Advise is a verb like sing
Advice is a noun like cabbage

'Please can you give me some sing' is not a phrase that you may even attempt to use - but 'please can you give me some cabbage' tells you that you need the word with the c in it. Similarly 'what would you cabbage?' or 'what would you sing?'

Does that help?

Sorry - dont think I can do one for counsel/council