instructions for pedestrians

[ripley]

Hi, I' d like to know if the following sentences are ok. Thanks.

Context: you are walking next to your toddler along a road without pavement. You hear that a car is coming along; you want to give him the right instructions while you are holding his hand.

1) keep to one side
2) stand on one side

What sentences would a native speaker use to teach a child not to walk in the middle of the road?

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi, I' d like to know if the following sentences are [STRIKE]ok[/STRIKE] OK/okay. Thanks.

Context: you are walking next to your toddler along a road without a pavement. You hear [STRIKE][STRIKE]that[/STRIKE][/STRIKE] a car [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] coming [STRIKE]along[/STRIKE]; you want to give him the right instructions while you are holding his hand.

1) keep to one side
2) stand on one side

What sentences would a native speaker use to teach a child not to walk in the middle of the road?

If you're walking, it wouldn't make sense to say "Stand". I would say "Keep [over] to the side [of the road]."

 

[Tarheel]

Ripley, my guess is that you are talking about a dirt road.

 

[emsr2d2]

In the UK, there are plenty of normal, tarmac roads which don't have a pavement on either side.

 

[Rover_KE]

Let's make sure we are understanding each other:

In AE, a pavement is a road/highway with a solid, permanent surface like tarmac or concrete.

In BE, a pavement is a footpath for pedestrians (AE sidewalk) on one or both sides of a road.

Misunderstandings about this could have potentially fatal implications.

 

[GoesStation]

Let's make sure we are understanding each other:

In AE, a pavement is a road/highway with a solid, permanent surface like tarmac or concrete.

In BE, a pavement is a footpath for pedestrians (AE sidewalk) on one or both sides of a road.

Misunderstandings about this could have potentially fatal implications.

Pavement is rarely if ever used as a countable noun in AmE. It's the stuff which the hard surface of a road is made out of: asphalt, concrete, brick, or cobblestones.