The phrase "ascertain damage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you need to determine the extent or nature of damage, often in legal, insurance, or assessment scenarios.
Example: "After the storm, the team was sent to ascertain damage to the affected properties."
Alternatives: "evaluate damage" or "assess damage".
The mode of ascertaining damages by commission has been adopted by the legislature in a great variety of cases; and I can see nothing in the provisions of the constitution which render such a course exceptionable.
Theo Walcott will have a scan on Monday to ascertain the damage done to his knee late in Saturday's 2-0 derby win over Tottenham.
In the grip of shock, she remembers making small talk about the policemen's shoes, "because you do, don't you?" When Hartnett got to the hospital, she found Borthwick in an induced coma and a team of neurosurgeons trying to ascertain what damage had been done to his brain.
"It'll be some time before they're allowed to come back to their homes because we can't ascertain the damage as yet.
This paper aims to ascertain the damage to residential houses and buildings caused by liquefaction during this earthquake and suggests possible mitigation methods.
Shortly after impact, authorities dispatched five helicopters to ascertain any damage in the wake of the quake.
The range of applicability of the two theories is ascertained for damage characteristics such as depth and extent of damage and beam characteristics such as slenderness ratio and Poisson׳s ratio.
"We are in the process of ascertaining other damages incurred by our hosting centres, after which we will present a final claim amount.
As far as we can ascertain no new damage seems to occur beyond the treatment and patients don't need to take any medication, so in that sense I think it has induced a long-standing remission.
Sohn believes it will take a few months to ascertain how much damage there's been to the infrastructure, how many key people have been lost and how investors here and abroad will react to the attacks.
"The intrusion is believed to have resulted in the death of at least one endangered Devils Hole pupfish, and fisheries biologists are trying to ascertain the extended damage that may have been done to food sources and egg sites, which could lead to more loss of a species whose numbers are now below the last count of 115 in existence," the Nye County Sheriff's Office said, according to the Times.
