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Can someone please help me parse the following sentence:

> ...新商品をお試しくださいますようご案内申し上げます。

I guess the meaning is something like "We invite you to try our new product,"
but I don't understand how ます+よう connects the お試しください with ご案内申し上げます. I don't
even know if I should think of the ます here going with ください or よう (does くださいます
occur in other sentence patterns?).
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Explain ますよう + [noun]
Your translation is correct. The sentence parses thus:

> ...新商品を お試しくださいます よう ご案内申し上げます。

So the ます is not separate at all. The first verb is in fact お試しくださいます. The
pattern `verb X + よう（に）+ verb Y` means that Y happens for/so that X happens.

>   * 彼に電話する **ように** 言ってください。 → Please tell him ( **that he should / to** )
> call me.
>   * (Inside train/subway cars as they approach a stop) お忘れものがございません **よう**
> 、ご注意ください。 → Please make sure **that** you do not forget your belongings
> (inside the car).
>

So here, `verb Y` is ご案内申し上げます; it is not a noun as the title indicates.

Since this is from a company to consumers about their new product, they will
use super-polite speech. That is why they use お試しくださいます instead of just
お試しくださる or even 試してくださる, and ご案内申し上げます instead of just ご案内します. Also, leaving
out the に after よう is often common in very polite speech, although I can't
really explain why other than maybe it just happens a lot. But the meaning
would not change if the に were there.
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