The phrase "elicit comments" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to ask for, or solicit comments from people. For example, "The presenter asked for audience members to elicit comments about the topic."
Efforts to elicit comments at the restaurant were unsuccessful.
He does not elicit comments from the class, but gives his own tasting notes.
The Fox Nation, an offshoot of the main Fox News site, exists mostly to elicit comments from users and link to news sources.
The Oxley proposals, which the congressman referred to as a "road map of goals and concepts" designed to elicit comments and debate, represent a middle way in comparison with plans already on the table.
As she attended the party wearing a skin-tight, seizure-causing exercise ensemble (appropriate for a date with Jack La Lanne), I am not surprised by her need to elicit comments.
I pretty much knew that the reaction to my last blog analyzing the flawed logic of the AOL-Time wouldr melicitwould elicommentsents blasting me for using 20-20 hindsight.
And, of course, there was her nose, which never failed to elicit comment in print.
Shimada's profile was sufficiently high for his resignation to elicit comment from the chief government spokesman, Yukio Edano.
Attempts to elicit comment from Rowland and his son, Jonathan, made by other media earlier in the week were unsuccessful.
(The Hartford Courant, Democracy Now!, and the Times, as well as the Review-Journal, all failed to elicit comment from Schroeder on this point).
When she eventually asked what was wrong, he replied: "But dear Doris, you've done nothing to elicit comment from me".
