Advance/Advanced
Advance/Advanced
(OP)
I see "advance" used frequently (and wrongly) as an adjective these days. For example: "Advance warning".
Advance can only be a noun or a verb, so "Advance warning" can only be an imperative, demanding a warning to advance and as such, requires an exclamation mark: "Advance warning!"
I see it more in America than in Englang. Is this an American usage thing, or just plain ignorance?
Advance can only be a noun or a verb, so "Advance warning" can only be an imperative, demanding a warning to advance and as such, requires an exclamation mark: "Advance warning!"
I see it more in America than in Englang. Is this an American usage thing, or just plain ignorance?





RE: Advance/Advanced
Certainly widespread in the bit of the UK I sit in.
A.
RE: Advance/Advanced
"adj. done, sent, or supplied beforehand."
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Dr Michael F Platten