Please do not

(a) Please do not eat in the park. -- OK

(b) Please don't eat in the park.

(c) If you are cycling, please do not cycle next to each other. -- Passable I suppose, but it seems a bit laborious. You could say "Please cycle in single file" or "Please do not cycle two abreast".

Thanks. Can I say likke this way:

(c) If you are cycling, do not cycle next to each other.

Hi Vincent,

Can I say likke this way:


(c) If you are cycling, do not cycle next to each other.

I keep advising you that this kind of repetition makes your writing seem, frankly, childlike and foolish. Can you think of a way to rewrite this sentence to avoid repetition?

Best wishes, Clive

frankly, childlike and foolish

Hi Clive,

Thanks for having the courage to be honset. I had this urge to say this for a long time, not from a disrespectful point of view but rather, from an ennoyied presepctive as these repetitious questions have been offerred answers more than once. Yet, the poster keeps insisting on his own version of the answer, but keeps co