preliminary
1.initiate organizational preliminaries作make preparations解，是公文英语。
2.He wrote to me preliminary to visiting me等句子里的preliminary用作副词，习惯上不可把它改作preliminarily。 它后面的to是介词，visiting不可改作visit。
3.He is reading some books and articles as a preliminary to writing a report里的to是介词，writing不可改作write。
