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Neo Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Introduce X to Y

Hello,

1. Let me introduce X to Y.
2. Let me introduce Y to X.

is there a difference between the two?

Thanks,
  

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Hello I'm a learner from Japan and I'm not sure about what you are asking exactly. But let me try. If you introduced X to Y, X got to know who Y is and Y also got to know who X is.

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Hello

I'm a learner from Japan and I'm not sure about what you are asking exactly. But let me try.

If you introduced X to Y, X got to know who Y is and Y also got to know who X is. The result is they got into acquaintance mutually. So "introduce X to Y" and "introduce Y to X" are same in the result. But as a social manner rather than as a grammar rule, when you say "I introduc
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Thanks paco,
Nice example!