Hello, everyone!
I got the sentence below from a dictionary.
1) The company has lost a lot of business to its competitors.
I have changed it into the #2 below since I found such a sentence as "His carelessness lost him the job"
2) The company has lost its competitors a lot of business.
The sentnece 'His carelessness lost him the job' seems to me to mean 'His carelessness made him lose the job'. So, I am wondering whether #2 also can mean 'The company made its competitiors lose a lot of business.' the ways the verb lose deals with the objects in #1 and #2 seems to me to be totally different and I'm confused. Could someone help me please?
Many thanks in advance!
I got the sentence below from a dictionary.
1) The company has lost a lot of business to its competitors.
I have changed it into the #2 below since I found such a sentence as "His carelessness lost him the job"
2) The company has lost its competitors a lot of business.
The sentnece 'His carelessness lost him the job' seems to me to mean 'His carelessness made him lose the job'. So, I am wondering whether #2 also can mean 'The company made its competitiors lose a lot of business.' the ways the verb lose deals with the objects in #1 and #2 seems to me to be totally different and I'm confused. Could someone help me please?
Many thanks in advance!