Allowed to shed some light on...

[Parergon]

Collectively these ideas allowed to shed some light on the importance of social and cultural context surrounding and supporting organizations.

My doubt– should I say allowed shedding some light? – does the sentence flow well?

 

[clairanne]

hi

Collectively these ideas shed some light on the importance of social and cultural context surrounding and supporting organizations.

I would miss out "allowed to""

 

[hly2004]

Hi, Parengon:

I totally agree with Clairanne, but am still wondering what you want to express with "allowed to shed some light on"?Could you please explain your sentence?

 

[Parergon]

With "allowed to" I would like to emphasise that before these theories, nobody considered the social and cultural context in organization theory.

Was "allowed to" grammatically wrong?

thanks

 

[hly2004]

These ideas allowed us to better realize..
These ideas allowed us a better understanding of the imporatnce......
These ideas allowed for a better realizaiton of ...


Or maybe you could say It's these ideas that shed light on ...

These ideas help shed some light on ........
As a non-english native speaker, I'm not sure if the above senteces sound ok, but they appear to me gramatically correct.

 

[Parergon]

Thanks– let's wait for natives.

Googling it I found some (even if limited in numbers) results: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...q="allowed+to+shed+some+light+on"&btnG=Search