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Rule "please not do this (please don't do this)"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: please not do this (please don't do this)
Message: Consider using the negated verb form of "do" here.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/grammar-forms-of-do/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Please not do this.
    Correction suggestion: don't do
  • Please no speak English to me.
    Correction suggestion: don't speak
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Can you invite all my friends but please not carol.
  • Up to now the new trophies were always good, but please no near impossible trophy.
ID: PLEASE_NOT_VB [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-29 22:33:07 +0100)