The phrase "ability to alter the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or power to change or modify something.
Example: "The software provides users with the ability to alter the settings according to their preferences."
Alternatives: "capacity to modify the" or "power to change the".
However, despite metabolism's powerful ability to alter the course of infections, little is known about what being "sick" means metabolically.
Earthworms are often referred to as ecosystem engineers due to their ability to alter the soil environment.
With humans' clear and growing ability to alter the climate, Dr. Overpeck said, "we could easily skip the next opportunity altogether".
With regard to technology, users have the ability to alter the "privacy settings" on mobile devices, operating systems, and individual social applications.
Bacterial ability to alter the stem cells has important implications for gastrointestinal stem cell biology and H pylori-induced gastric pathology.
The ability to alter the mode shape of circular plates with free edges has useful applications in sensing and actuating devices and large pontoon-type floating circular structures.
This was correlated to their position in the periodic table and to their ability to alter the characteristics of the VO bond and the acid/base surface properties.
The company said it would soon be adding the ability to alter the photo itself, turning it to sepia, black and white, or to exaggerate the color.
It allows for greater fine-tuning, for instance, and gives the Fed the ability to alter the programme if economic conditions warrant.
They also hindered his ability to alter the uneven wall in the hallway, he said, and the loft stairs, which he considered to be at an unsafe pitch.
The elections were for local advisory councils with no lawmaking authority or ability to alter the status quo in one of the world's few remaining absolute monarchies.
