If-you-ask-me Sentence Examples

People ask rhetorical questions without expecting an answer, usually to make a point. Writers use rhetorical questions to persuade someone or for literary effect — usually to get an audience to agree to an easy or unanswerable question. There are two main types of rhetorical questions: questions whose answers are so obvious that there's no need to say them or questions without any answer at all.

The words "advice" and "advise" can sometimes be confused. They have different meanings and are different parts of speech, but there is a relationship between their usage. There's also just one letter different in their spelling, so it's easy to see how using the wrong one in your writing can be a common mistake. How can you easily tell the difference between advice and advise?