attended

«attended» in Mova's school dictionary: went to an event, a meeting or a place, like a school, a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (attend, attends, attended, attending; past form attended)

meaning for a pupil

1) Attended means went to an event, a meeting or a place, like a school, a party or a game. tree →

2) Attended to means looked after or dealt with: «The nurse attended to the boy». tree →

sense in the lessons

the number of people who were at an event; counts that may be added or compared; phrases «attended school», «attended to», «attendance»

examples

• 300 people attended the game. tree →
• 45 students attended the concert on Friday. tree →
• How many people attended in all? tree →
• Fewer people attended on Sunday. tree →
• She attended the same school as her mom. tree →
• Many families attended the fair. tree →
• The doctor attended to the hurt player. tree →
• He attended every football practice. tree →
• Over a thousand fans attended the match. tree →
• All the pupils attended the assembly. tree →
• When she was gone, no one attended to her plantations, and the garden ran to waste. tree →

note

Gives a count of people. Trap: if the same people attended on two days, do not count them twice. «Attend» needs no «to» for places: «attended the party», not «attended to the party» («attend to» means look after). The noun is «attendance».

In the corpora

• Who hath attended to His word, and heard it?
• But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
• Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man attended,

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «attended» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.