The phrase "asked to trace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requested to follow a path, outline, or replicate something, often in a context of investigation or analysis.
Example: "The detective was asked to trace the suspect's movements leading up to the crime."
Alternatives: "requested to follow" or "instructed to outline".
They were given a touch-screen laptop and asked to trace wiggly lines of varying widths - slowly, quickly and at their own preferred pace.
We are asked to trace the intellectual connections back to Beckett and, as I have discovered, each one opens up not only new readings of the work in hand, but also a deeper appreciation of the great man himself.
Ivana Hong is a gymnast hoping to make it to the Beijing Summer Games, a Chinese-American who figured to be asked to trace her roots by reporters who are here to familiarize themselves with likely United States competitors.
Angry about the latest well-placed mole at the Home Office, whose identity (Tory activist and job-seeker Christopher Galley) the Met was asked to trace, they hid behind police "operational independence", ignoring the big civil liberty picture.
It's a society that Ray Lovell, a private eye of gypsy descent, thought he had left far behind until he is asked to trace the missing wife of Ivo Janko and discovers the mysterious Janko clan, who have more family secrets than the Borgias.
In an initial navigation task, they were asked to trace along 3D vessels using 2D cross-sections and to determine where the vessels terminated.
Federal agents say about 90percentt of the 12,000 pistols and rifles the Mexican authorities recovered from drug dealers last year and asked to be traced came from dealers in the United States, most of them in Texas and Arizona.
Additionally, while all of our interview questions asked students to trace matter, the Oak Tree question in particular is less scaffolded for tracing, simply asking students to explain what a tree needs in order to grow and how it uses those things to grow.
In one case, for example, the Libyans asked operatives to trace a phone number for them, and a document that was in the MI-6 binder replied that it belonged to the Arab News Network in London.
In one striking experiment, Molaison was asked repeatedly to trace a star in an apparatus that insured that he could see the figure and his hand only in a mirror.
UK prosecutors have asked Pakistan to trace two suspects believed to have been involved in the 2010 murder of Imran Farooq, a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQMMuttahida Qaumi Movement MQM
