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01. Let me [introduce] you to my wife and children.
02. Please hold your applause until all the students receiving awards have been [introduced].
03. Please include a cover letter [introducing] yourself with your resumé.
04. The recreation center has an indoor rock-climbing wall, which offers a good opportunity to [introduce] young people to the sport.
05. The government has [introduced] legislation to stop smoking in public buildings.
06. You need to make sure that your essay has a proper [introduction] and conclusion.
07. The cultivation of corn was first [introduced] by native people in Colombia.
08. Roger Bacon [introduced] gunpowder to Europe in 1242.
09. Each summer, our local art gallery puts on a special program designed to [introduce] children to art.
10. An increasing number of elementary schools in Japan are [introducing] chopstick etiquette into their programs.
11. Merchants from the Arabian Peninsula [introduced] the Islamic religion to the area now known as Pakistan in the seventh century.
12. Many native plants of our country have been pushed out by plants [introduced] from other parts of the world.
13. Bengalis will shake hands with a male Western visitor, but will simply nod when [introduced] to a woman.
14. The day after they moved into their house, their new neighbors came by to [introduce] themselves.
15. In China, guests are generally [introduced] to the oldest person first.
16. My daughter got a free [introductory] issue of a number of different magazines.
17. The first VHS videotape was [introduced] to the world in 1975 in Japan.
18. As worms tunnel through the earth, they help to [introduce] water and air into the soil.
19. Greg has [introduced] some much needed changes to the program.
20. His Japanese girlfriend [introduced] him to Japanese food.
21. The [introduction] to the book tells about all the research that was done by the author before he wrote the story.
22. I don't usually read the [introduction] when I read a novel because it's usually pretty boring.
23. There is a good [introductory] course to Linguistics which is being offered this semester.
24. As a special [introductory] offer, we will give you free Internet service for the first three months.
25. Our friends don't know all your family, Charles. Why don't you do the [introductions]?
26. Our next speaker needs no [introduction], as he is well-known to everyone working in this firm.
27. The [introduction] of electric/gas hybrid cars into the marketplace is causing a great deal of excitement.
28. He made a few [introductory] remarks before the concert began.
29. Certain plants that have been [introduced] into the environment from elsewhere have killed off a lot of native plants in this area.
30. A Portuguese proverb notes that beauty is a good letter of [introduction].

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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