Basic Details
Word: Attending
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Being present at an event or place, such as school or a wedding. Attending to someone means taking care of them.
Synonyms: going to, visiting, looking after
Antonyms: missing, skipping
How to Spell Attending
Syllables: at - tend - ing
Tricky part: It begins with a double t, and the middle is tend, with an e. Attend already ends in a consonant pair, so ing is added straight on.
Watch out for: atending, attanding, attendding
Memory tip: Inside attending is tend, as in tending a garden. At + tend + ing, and the two t's sit where at meets tend.
Usage Examples
Example 1: I am attending my cousin's wedding in Jaipur next week.
Example 2: The nurse is attending to the injured player.
Example 3: Are you attending the science fair on Saturday?
Fun Fact
A flight attendant gets the name from attend in its older sense of looking after someone, which is still alive in phrases like attending to a patient.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the word opposite in meaning to attending as used in the sentence:
Over two hundred students are attending the summer camp this year.
a) joining
b) visiting
c) skipping
d) going to
Show answer
c) skipping. Students who are skipping the camp stay away from it.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
More than five thousand people were atending the cricket festival at Eden Gardens when the floodlights suddenly failed.
a) atending
b) thousand
c) festival
d) floodlights
Show answer
a) atending. The word needs the double t of at-tend.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
The doctor is tnengitad to a patient in the emergency ward.
a) attending
b) attaining
c) intending
d) attendant
Show answer
a) attending. Attendant ends in ant and attaining has no d; the nine letters make attending.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In She is attending to the baby, attending to means ____.
a) calling
b) taking care of
c) waiting for
d) ignoring
Show answer
b) taking care of
2. Which noun means the number of people present at something?
a) attention
b) tension
c) attendant
d) attendance
Show answer
d) attendance
