⚡ Quick summary
Both advance notice and advanced notice are used, but advance notice is much more common and is usually considered to be the standard form.
If you need to tell somebody something important ahead of time, do you need to give them advance notice or advanced notice? Which phrase is more common?
In this article, we will explain why advance notice is typically preferred over advanced notice and provide examples of how we use advance notice in sentences.
Is it advance notice or advanced notice?
Let’s say you want to tell your friends you’re going to be late to meet them. Do you give them advance notice or advanced notice?
The one that’s used more often is advance notice. Because it’s used more often, it’s considered to be the standard form by most sources.
The phrase advance notice uses the word advance as an adjective in the sense of “made or given ahead of time” or “issued ahead of time.” For example, if we say Joanna gave advance notice to the restaurant that some guests had peanut allergies, we mean that Joanna provided the restaurant information before the group arrived at the restaurant.
As an adjective, the word advanced typically means “ahead in progress” or “further along in time.” These meanings don’t seem to make sense if used in the phrase advanced notice and actually have the opposite meaning of what advanced notice intends. For this reason, advanced notice is often considered a nonstandard form by most sources.
Examples of advance notice in a sentence
Let’s make sure we know how to use the phrase advance notice ahead of time by looking at how we typically use it in sentences.
- The president gave advance notice to the board of directors that she would be late for the upcoming meeting.
- The commander had advance notice that the enemy was coming thanks to warnings from the allied kingdom.
- Does the restaurant require advance notice if we’re going to be late for our reservation time?
