The phrase "commence the work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating the start of a task or project.
Example: "After the meeting, we will commence the work on the new marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "begin the work" or "start the work."
As a result of these collaborative efforts, the Contractor was able to commence the works for the foundations of the project.
We specified which data analyses we planned to do and how to do them before we commenced the work.
A curriculum committee consisting of experts in the field of EBM, clinical epidemiologists, clinicians and educationalists from the participating countries commenced the work.
Before commencing the work, for example, checks were made to confirm that the study would be adequately powered, given the available data (Peduzzi et al, 1995; Harrell et al, 1996; Altman and Lyman, 1998).
Collier continued: "The organising team from the 2013 Champions Trophy, led by tournament director Steve Elworthy, will commence the preparation work for the World Cup immediately following the Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston on 23 June".
Before applying high voltages to commence electrospinning, the working fluids were first equilibrated for half an hour at the pre-determined temperature.
Prior to commencing this work the sequence for deer NGF was unknown.
In 1877 Newcomb was put in charge of the American Nautical Almanac Office, then in Washington, where almost at once he commenced the great work that he had had in his mind for some years and that was to occupy the greater part of the rest of his life: the calculation of the motions of the bodies in the solar system.
4. We still need to get to the truth of what has happened and we hope for the investigators to commence their work at the crash site to determine this. 5. Families are suffering across the world and once the remains are with the respective families, I am sure they will demand for justice to be served on those who have caused this horrific crime.
The design proved brilliantly successful, but Brandt, working almost 24 hours a day, succumbed to strain and died a little more than a year after the work commenced.
