You're a college student visiting another city. You can't afford to stay in a hotel, so you want to stay at a friend's small apartment. After explaining your situation, you ask him like this.
Listen, do you mind if I crash on your couch for a night or two?
You're in the army. You've been told that you have to leave the country to do a mission. You call your boyfriend to tell him.
It looks like I'm being deployed in a couple of weeks.
couple, introductory phrases, military, passive 
You're in charge of planning a release schedule for the software that your team creates at work. You're sending the schedule for the next 6 months to a large group of people. You want everyone to know that the dates might change a little. In your email, you write:
Please note that these dates are tentative.
It's your first week at a new job. You're being trained, so you've been asking your boss a lot of questions. You need to ask him one more question, but you're embarrassed to bother him again. So when you go to his office, you say:
Sorry to keep pestering you, but who can I speak to about getting access to the shared drive?
Your company recently laid off 15% of the employees. You're running a meeting with your staff to talk about how to deal with the layoffs. After starting the meeting, you begin by saying:
As you're all aware, we've been forced to make significant cutbacks.
You're giving a presentation of your company's newly redesigned website. You want to list the good points of this new site, so you say:
As you can see, the advantages of the new site are, one, it's personalized.
business, introductory phrases, presentation, products, website, work 
You're the manager of a tech support department at a company. People are supposed to e-mail you when they need help with their computers and other technology. Then you choose an employee from your staff to help them. One coworker doesn't follow the rules, and always calls one of your staff members directly instead. She just did this again, so you write an angry e-mail telling her not to do this. You begin:
As you're well aware, all requests for tech support are to go through me.
You and your family are going to move to another city in a couple months. You haven't fully planned how you're going to move all your stuff yet, but you have an idea. While you're having dinner with your wife, you want to introduce the topic of how to move your stuff. You say:
You know, I've been thinking about the move.
You've been working hard on a project at work all afternoon, and one of your team members suggests that you should call it a day. You agree, and you want to tell everyone that you should all continue working on it again in the morning. You say:
All right, we'll pick it back up in the morning.
You bought a new mobile phone a few weeks ago and have been taking pictures with it. Now you're showing some of the photos to a friend, and you are noticing that they look better than you would expect for mobile phone pictures. You say:
I must say, I've been quite impressed with the quality of the pictures that I've taken with it.
impressed, intensifier, introductory phrases, opinion, photos, quality 