Please advice

[Maybo]

Some websites say "Please advise" is old fashioned in business letter. Is that true?
For example, if I say "Please advise the necessary actions. ", is it okay?

 

[emsr2d2]

Some websites say "Please advise" is old-fashioned in business letters. Is that true?
For example, if I say "Please advise the necessary actions", is it okay?

Which websites say that? It's not old-fashioned for me. I use "Please advise" quite a lot. However, I find "Please advise the necessary actions" unnatural. I'd say "Please advise/tell me what I need to do now".

Note my corrections above.

 

[Maybo]

Which websites say that? It's not old-fashioned for me. I use "Please advise" quite a lot. However, I find "Please advise the necessary actions" unnatural. I'd say "Please advise/tell me what I need to do now".

Note my corrections above.

https://topick.hket.com/article/1838994/Email英語教室 別再隨便用「Please advise」
This website, but it was written in Chinese.

"Please advise/tell me what I need to do now".

Can I also say, "Please advise/tell the following actions"? As I will write it to my superior, and want it sounds more polite.

 

[teechar]

if I say "Please advise the necessary actions. ", is it okay?

No. That means please inform/tell the necessary actions. That doesn't make sense, because we can't inform (talk to) actions.

Say, for example:
Please advise us/the team of any/the necessary actions.

Can I also say, "Please advise/tell the following actions"? [STRIKE]As[/STRIKE] I will write it to my superior, and I want it to sound more polite.

No. Again, you can advise/tell people, not actions.

 

[emsr2d2]

By the way, you misspelled "advise" in your title. Did you notice?

 

[Maybo]

By the way, you misspelled "advise" in your title. Did you notice?

Oh I didn't.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

Please tell me what I should do.

 

[GoesStation]

Perhaps:

Please tell me what I should do.

I wouldn't use that in a formal communication.

 

[abaka]

In modern business communication, whether orally or by e-mail, it is very common to describe the situation about which you are seeking advice, and then add, as a two-word sentence, "Please advise". This phrasing works well if you have a close working relationship with the person you are addressing. I should not, however, use it to address someone who is above my immediate superior, or someone I do not know. More formally, you may say something like:

I should be very grateful for any thoughts or advice you might be willing to offer.


PS. "Please advise" can also be used, in a close working relationship or when addressing an inferior, to ask not only for advice, but also for specific information.