The phrase "ascertaining why" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of finding out the reasons or causes behind a particular situation or behavior.
Example: "The research team is focused on ascertaining why certain species are declining in population."
Alternatives: "determining the reasons" or "finding out why".
After ascertaining why taking the time to sharpen your abilities is vital to your endeavor, Hewertson takes the reader through careful instruction worth more than the cost of a graduate course and far more than the $25 cost of these bound pages.
Ascertaining why someone declines to take part in a study is problematic.
49 Rather, he called for a systematic effort to root ethical codes in their correct historical context: determining their broader influences and ascertaining why certain standards changed or endured over time.
Officers had been sent there to ascertain why mullahs were preaching against the British.
With The Hateful Eight about to arrive in cinemas, you could almost mistake it for a timely proposition but, beyond the title, it's near impossible to ascertain why it's been made, or for whom.
But Dr. Wimmer is not resting on his synthetic laurels: he and the team are already back in the lab to ascertain why their virus is weaker than the natural stuff.
We ask Mr. McCloskey and Mr. Harris, who purport to care about Catholic schools, to gather data to ascertain why this is so — and what we can do to change it.
How to put a price on the contribution of Facebook or Twitter to the Arab spring?But the distinction between measurable productivity and unmeasured consumer surplus matters when trying to ascertain why growth remains so weak.
"D.O.I. should also interview the appropriate Bovis officials to ascertain why they are continually selecting Safeway in various reincarnations rather than other possible qualified demolition companies to perform the deconstruction work on this project," she wrote in a letter to downtown rebuilding officials.
The PTs ascertained why students typically struggle with mathematics.
We're trying to ascertain why and get comment from the company.
