Put before us

[Cooliegirly]

"...no one has yet succeeded in putting before us even a single viewer who was incapable of telling the difference between a family quarrel in the current soap opera and one at his or her family's breakfast table."

What does the black part mean?

[Alan]

Hi Cooliegirly,

This simply means presenting to us or even more simply showing us with the idea of giving us an example of.

Alan
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