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Kanonathena Posted 18 years ago
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From being second largest and fastest growing publicly-held death care company in North America to filing for bankruptcy, the corporate failure of The Loewen Group poses a lot of us to learn.

Is pose used correctly in this sentence?

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No, and there are other problems: The Loewen Group's devolution from being the second largest and fastest growing publicly-held funeral service and cemetery corporation company in North America to its corporate failure in bankruptcy poses much for us to learn from. I realize that 'death-care' is used in some texts, but the phrase is off-putting to many.

  • No, and there are other problems: The Loewen Group's devolution from being the second largest and fastest growing publicly-held funeral service and cemetery corporation company in North America to its corporate failure in bankruptcy poses much for us to learn from.
  • I realize that 'death-care' is used in some texts, but the phrase is off-putting to many.
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No, and there are other problems:

The Loewen Group's devolution from being the second largest and fastest growing publicly-held funeral service and cemetery corporation company in North America to its corporate failure in bankruptcy poses much for us to learn from.

I realize that 'death-care' is used in some texts, but the phrase i
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I would say it is generally okay, but it would have been more clear with "...poses a lot for us to learn."
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Mister Micawber: Why did you rearrange the sentence? It made more sense unchanged because the first clause ("From being...") was meant to describe the "corporate failure". It's just like the phrase of "from sea to shining sea" in America the Beautiful. 

Also, "pose" in this case is a transitive verb that means "present or constitute", and "presents a lot  [for] us to learn" would make se
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KanonathenaIs pose used correctly in this sentence?
I'm assuming you meant "poses a lot for us to learn."

I don't have any problem with the first part of the sentence.

I find the use "pose" in your sentence rather awkward sounding. A better way to phrase this might be
"poses a lot of questions."
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This sentence has little to do with America the Beautiful, Lakshwadeep. The structure is more complex and is awkward in its original form. For one thing, corporate failure and filing for bankruptcy are synonymous; hence one of them is redundant. Pose remains transitive in my improved version.
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