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Advance/Advanced

Advance/Advanced

Advance/Advanced

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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?

RE: Advance/Advanced

Depends a bit on which dictionary you look at; some do recognise a legitimate adjective usage.

Certainly widespread in the bit of the UK I sit in.

A.

RE: Advance/Advanced

The Concise Oxford Dictionary gives
"adj. done, sent, or supplied beforehand."

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Dr Michael F Platten

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