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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

plan/ planning

With some advance plan/planning, Pamela will surely save a lot of time and money on her trip to Asia in December.

Q) Is the option underlined different?
Q2) Are both acceptable? if not which sounds better?
  

Top answer

Hi moon7296, I think it should be advanc ed planning . I not 100% sure though; come to think of it, I never am. But I recall having seen "advanced planning" before.

— Agarista

  • Hi moon7296, I think it should be advanc ed planning .
  • I not 100% sure though; come to think of it, I never am.
  • But I recall having seen "advanced planning" before.
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Hi moon7296,
I think it should be advanced planning. I not 100% sure though; come to think of it, I never am. But I recall having seen "advanced planning" before.
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Thank you Agarista.

I searched "advance plan" in Google and most results show "advance planning".
So I was still wondering why a noun "plan" are not used with "advance" when another noun "planning" is often used with "advance".
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Hi moon;
between the three options (advance plan, advance planning, advanced planning) I would use advanced planning. If you say that Google showed you a lot of results for advance planning, it must be correct too. Maybe advance plan could be right in a specific context, but what I would say is plan in advance.

I think I am not mistaken, but you nev
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