ATTRIBUTE is a relatively easy word that means to regard something as being caused by someone or something. For example, my students ATTRIBUTE their ability to answer difficult vocabulary in context questions to the Winning Words posts on this Substack platform.
ALERT – ATTRIBUTED TO has appeared as an answer on several recent tests! Don’t expect SAT test writers to illustrate ATTRIBUTED TO with obvious causal examples. Instead, be prepared for summaries of complex research conducted by ecologists and microbiologists. Let’s take a look:
