The phrase "alter comments" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of changing or modifying comments, typically in a digital or written context.
Example: "Please alter comments on the document to reflect the latest feedback from the team."
Alternatives: "modify remarks" or "edit feedback".
The panel found that the operation went as deep and extensive as 116 of 164 statements being amended "to remove or alter comments unfavourable to South Yorkshire police".
The panel, constituted in 2009 on the initiative of the then Labour ministers Andy Burnham and Maria Eagle and in the wake an articleby the Guardian's David Conn, found that 116 of 164 statements supplied by South Yorkshire police in response to the disaster were changed to "remove or alter comments directly unfavourable to South Yorkshire police".
The report also concluded that 116 witness statements presented by the police to previous inquiries had been amended by the police "to remove or alter comments unfavorable to the police," and that police officers conducted computer checks on those who had died in an attempt "to impugn the reputations of the deceased".
Of those, 116 were substantially changed to "remove or alter comments unfavourable" to the force.
"Some 116 of the 164 statements identified for substantive amendment were amended to remove or alter comments unfavourable to SYP".
It found 116 of the police statements identified for "substantive amendment" had been "amended to remove or alter comments unfavourable to South Yorkshire Police".
The panel found that 164 police statements were altered, 116 of them to remove or alter "unfavourable" comments about the policing of the match and the unfolding disaster.
The panel found 164 police statements were altered, 116 of them to remove or alter "unfavourable" comments about the policing of the match and the unfolding disaster.
More than 160 police statements were changed, 116 of them to remove or alter "unfavourable" comments about the policing of the match and the unfolding disaster.
The panel found that 116 of those statements were either removed or changed to alter negative comments about the police operation at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Having seen and heard the now infamous Cairo University speech several times, I must admit that if I were to record that interview again with CNN, I would have altered my comments a bit... though many of them didn't make the final cut on air anyway.
