"asked the reason why" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used in formal or informal writing. Example: The teacher asked the student the reason why he had not completed his homework.
The child asked the reason why numbers appeared backwards, but the driver didn't appear on the other side of the car.
While once chatting with a young Jack Straw, Harrison, a bluff Yorkshireman, grabbed the future foreign secretary's testicles and when Mr Straw, gasping, asked the reason why, the whip snarled, "Nowt.
When Prophet Mohamed asked the reason why, he learned of the day when God miraculously saved the Jews, allowing them to cross the Red Sea, led by Moses, peace be upon them both and all prophets.
Women, who did not seek care for their health problems during postnatal period, were asked the reason why not.
Fifty eight (20%) women were asked the reason why they changed their planned place of delivery from health institution to their home and the reported reasons include: labor is accidental and no problem has occurred during labor at home.
As Informant C remarked, 'it was virtually infeasible to call a training session since all of our item writers have very tight schedules within their own affiliations.' Two boards reported they didn't provide feedback to item writers (Q2.6), but when asked the reasons why feedback was not provided, their explanations were vague.
We also asked the reasons why doses were missed and field coded the participants' responses using a list of possible reasons constructed by the investigators.
Respondents were also asked the reasons why they thought a decline in the numbers of trials had occurred where relevant.
The 134 (28.8%) mothers who delivered at home were asked the reasons why, when their planned place of delivery was in a health institution.
These catalogues of disasters are apprehended in almost obsessive detail, caught in the loop of the oral lasso.The "cruelty" of which Southerners have been accused, writes McCullers, is at bottom only a sort of naivety, an acceptance of spiritual inconsistencies without asking the reason why.
Her audience is "interested in self growth, how good they can be and how God loves them, but not in how to do the kinds of things that stop abuse, that fight oppression, that fight hunger and incarceration and ask the reason why," Dr. Davis said.
