The phrase "ask you to modify" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when requesting someone to make changes or adjustments to something, such as a document or a plan.
Example: "I would like to ask you to modify the report to include the latest data."
Alternatives: "request you to change" or "ask you to adjust".
Or the tattooed college grad who snaps back when you ask to modify an order.
If you zip up a file, change it, and then try to unzip it up, it will ask you if you want to replace the modified file with the file in the zip file.
"I had the opportunity to bring my paperwork to the meeting but hundreds of thousands of people in the same position aren't in the position to directly ask Jamie Dimon to modify their loan," Holwell continued.
Specifically, Mr. Holden said, "I will ask the State Legislature to modify our Senior Rx program to pay 75percentt of drug costs" in the doughnut hole.
"When I went for a fitting, I would ask the première to modify the proportions, or I proposed a different fabric," she said.
The future of the American military here is a political decision in the hands of the government of Iraq, which must formally ask to modify the security agreement to allow some troops to stay.
Correction: October 26, 2000, Thursday A headline in Business Day yesterday about plans by a developer of bioengineered corn to ask the government to modify a ban on its use in food misidentified the agency that could act.
Ask the judge to modify the custody order.
Trying to act before foreclosure looms on her home, she has asked Countrywide to modify the terms of her loan.
12) Nuclear safety authorities from France, Finland and UK have asked Areva to modify its EPR reactor design.
Under the new policy, any candidate who is found to be "willfully ignoring or violating" the committee guidelines will be asked privately to "modify such conduct".
