The phrase "ask perhaps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to suggest a question or inquiry in a tentative or uncertain manner.
Example: "If you have any doubts, you might want to ask perhaps about the project's timeline."
Alternatives: "maybe inquire" or "possibly ask".
financing do not ask — perhaps, one colleague suggests, because N.S.F. program officers discourage them?
So what, I hear you ask – perhaps with a slightly less patient tone than before – is Endless like?
To find out if a potential school's expectations match your own learning goals, ask: Perhaps one of the best things you can do during your college search is sit in on one of the classes.
We cannot say where temperament ends and technique begins, but we can legitimately ask, perhaps, whether so mobile a camera — it glides through walls, from room to room, as Ophuls himself crossed national frontiers — could really have been wielded by a more settled soul.
If a studio executive is quoted as pushing a particular film, even if it is widely felt to be the studio's best chance at an Oscar, the makers of other films released by the studio that year call up to ask, perhaps a little testily, why they are not the favored child.
So, why on earth would men sign up to Boompi, I ask, perhaps naively.
"Is Chablis anybody's favorite white Burgundy?" Mr. Smyth asked, perhaps a leading question.
But there is one question that is hardly ever asked, perhaps because they are afraid to hear the answer.
A P.R. manager asked, perhaps worried, "Do you have any self awareness?" An editor at the Atlantic, riffing on the London Whale trading loss, tweeted, "What's your favorite type of whale?" Many were not so mild.
Walking out the door, Mr. Romney was asked perhaps the most timely question of the evening — whom was he rooting for in the evening's World Series game? "Oh, I'm pulling for the Cardinals," Mr. Romney said.
As Seamus Quinn, an Irish-born bartender at Poitin Still Irish Restaurant and Pub in Hackensack, said to me when I asked, perhaps ridiculously, whether ordering the buffalo wings and a Caesar salad would be too much: " 'Too much' is relative".
