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I happened across this in a document:

> これより前の記事は、サイト内検索をご利用ください。

Why can you say "ご利用ください"? 体言止めい? But, I used to hear ご利用ください used frequently
in the subways...

"お仕事ください" // _(As noted in the accepted answer, this is grammatically correct.
But, it does not mean "please work". Rather, it means "please give me work".)_  
"お仕事してください" // ok

"お勉強ください" // ?  
"勉強してください" // ok

I suspect that there are a few other サ変名詞 that can also have their "して"
dropped when the intended meaning is "~~~してください". Is that correct? What are
other examples?
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honorifics
Is "して" dropped in this phrase "ご利用{りよう}ください"?
It's because the word 利用 has been beautified (made to sound more refined) by
adding ご as a sign of respect to the receiver of the message. More commonly
you might hear ご注意ください=please take care, which is a more polite way of saying
注意してください. There's also 電話してください -> お電話ください.

I'm not really sure why it is possible to drop the して, but one theory I have
is that the structure changes from two verbs to a single verb when the noun is
beautified with お or ご, i.e. from 注意する + くださる to simply ご注意くださる.

A similar thing happens with verbs when you politely ask someone to do
something; 待ってください becomes お待ちください.
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「して」 is **_not_** dropped; It was not there in the first place.

「ご利用」 is an honorific noun and all you need to add is 「ください」 to form a polite
request with it. You just **_cannot_** add 「して」; It is not even an option.

Other common examples include:

「ご[覧]{らん}ください。」(Please have a look.),「お[越]{こ}しください。」(Please
come.),「お[求]{もと}めください。」(Please purchase.),「お[試]{ため}しください。」(Please try it
out.), etc.

Again, you cannot insert 「して」 into any of those phrases. **_It makes no sense
to_**.

If you absolutely must use 「して」 for some reason, you will need to drop the
honorific 「お/ご」 and say 「利用 **して** ください。」, but you would need to know that it
will not sound as polite or "refined" as 「 **ご** 利用ください」.

You mentioned 体言止め but it has nothing to do with it. 「ください」 is not a 体言, so
you cannot call it 体言止め.

Lastly, I need to point out another mistake you have made. I am really sorry
but someone had to. 「お仕事ください。」 makes perfect sense. It means "Please give me
(some) work.", but not "Please work."
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The common way to create humble/respectful forms (謙譲語・尊敬語) of verbs of the
form Sinitic(音読み)-compound-する, e.g. 利用する is

> (ご)利用する・(ご)利用いたす humble forms  
>  ご利用になる・ご利用なさる respectful forms

(Let's ignore for now whether the humble form should have ご or not)

You could argue that ご利用して下さい requests the other person to be humble, so
prescriptively it is incorrect (but you do sometimes hear forms like this from
敬語 speakers, although native).

ご利用になって下さい・ご利用なさって下さい are correct, so you might say that it's actually "になって"
or "なさって" which is dropped.

Whether you treat ご利用 as a noun or (part of) a verb really depends on the
analysis. Although it formally looks like a noun, I personally think it makes
more sense to think of it as a verb for several reasons:

  1. Semantically, for ご利用ください, "Please give me usage" just doesn't make sense. ください is obviously used in its auxiliary verb sense here, not it's full verb sense.
  2. *ご利用をください is not possible, which you would expect it to be if ご利用 were a full-blown noun.

This analysis also makes sense when considering お仕事ください. One way of explaining
why this cannot mean "please work" is that there is no verb 仕事する. 仕事する is an
object-verb construction 仕事をする with a dropped を.

As for 勉強, googling I do find some examples of お勉強ください・ご勉強ください meaning "please
study", although this construction doesn't strike me as common (maybe because
it sounds condescending). Note that I've never heard ご勉強 as a standalone noun,
which also suggests that there are special rules at play when 勉強する is used as
a verb.
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