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The phrase "asked to revise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a request for someone to make changes or improvements to a document, piece of work, or project.
Example: "The editor asked to revise the manuscript before it could be published."
Alternatives: "requested to amend" or "instructed to modify".
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I enjoy the social side of collaboration, but I can't stand taking notes and being asked to revise things.
You get a commission, you work on it, you get asked to revise it, you revise it, it gets dropped".
I believe the book should never have been published, and, indeed, when the manuscript was submitted to an editor, Lee was asked to revise it.
After graduating from Cambridge in 1982, Fry subsisted off of sporadic roles in television shows until 1984, when he was asked to revise the script of Noel Gay's 1937 musical Me and My Girl.
Strategists at the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, in Tampa, Florida, have been asked to revise the military's war plan, providing for a maximum ground and air invasion of Iran.
For example, at my previous internship I was asked to revise and finish a deck (a kind of corporate literature document that describes what a company is and does) that was supposed to be used in a proposal for a client.
Similar(43)
He said that Bristol-Myers, which has access to information about Erbitux that other ImClone investors do not, should not ask to revise the deal.
Yet, current therapeutic approaches based on that paradigm have been proven to be ineffective in clinical cancer management, and the effect of new treatments for cancer on mortality has been largely disappointing [ 16], to the point that an increasing number of voices are asking to revise current treatment strategies [ 17, 18].
An expert in quality management was then asked to review the revised questionnaire.
But almost two full weeks after the election, as Christmas decorations went up downtown here, there was nothing simple about what the justices themselves suggested they were being asked to do: revise and elaborate on the state's election laws under intense time pressure, with few settled facts and little in the way of a lower-court record to go on.
Around this time he was asked to help revise Hymns Ancient and Modern, a task he did with enthusiasm.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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