The phrase "a modest undertaking" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe a task or project that is not overly ambitious or extravagant, but still has value or significance. Example: "Starting a small business may seem like a modest undertaking, but with hard work and dedication, it can lead to great success."
Although this was hardly a modest undertaking, the results are refreshingly unostentatious.
Still, this was a modest undertaking, comparable to a good production by a small company like the Gotham Chamber Opera.
AIG's accounting lesson Unusually clear Fair's fair Dutch auction Rich pickings Transatlantic tiff Cashing in A modest undertaking ReprintsForthcoming elections are largely to blame.
AIG's accounting lesson Unusually clear Fair's fair Dutch auction Rich pickings Transatlantic tiff Cashing in A modest undertaking ReprintsOf course, the Fund is not a commercial bank.
It was a modest undertaking at first; now most weeks he sends 400 people home with cartons of frozen meat, tinned food and bananas.
AIG's accounting lesson Unusually clear Fair's fair Dutch auction Rich pickings Transatlantic tiff Cashing in A modest undertaking ReprintsFor now, foreign outfits dominate the business.
Building out a national grid, a financially modest undertaking for an industry as large as the power industry already is, will unleash innovation and competition on both the supply and demand side of our energy market.
"It was a fairly modest undertaking at first," Don DeLillo told the Guardian live event, explaining how his 827-page novel came to be.
It's a far more modest undertaking than that: more of a darkly comic exercise in the danger of self-fulfilling prophecies and the folly of thinking that being a hard-working A student will offer any sort of protection from the mad vagaries of fate.
Building commercial satellites is a much more modest undertaking.
The International Monetary Fund as it finally emerged from the wartime discussions was a much more modest undertaking than had originally been conceived by the British.
