The phrase "assign something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of allocating a task, responsibility, or resource to someone or something.
Example: "The manager decided to assign the new project to the most experienced team member."
Alternatives: "allocate something" or "designate something".
Instructors can assign something as simple as a low-stakes, low-points writing assignment after a first exam, asking students to reflect and write a brief letter to their future selves covering: "What about my exam preparation worked well that I should remember to do next time?
I'm getting a syntax error with NEURON 7.5 whenever I try to assign something to diam3d(j), e.g. My mistake, sorry.
Roughly half a century ago bridge theoreticians began a search that has continued to this day: to find bids that have no meaning or no plausible meaning and assign something to them.
Once you assign something to somebody, that person will get an email.
Resist the temptation to assign something because the students need to know it.
But I think the possibility of the problem spreading and concern affecting other countries that even, again, some of the developing countries ultimately, I would say you probably have to assign something like a 20% probability to that just to be responsible and say that it is one of those events that has been very serious in the past.
"Let's start writing and assigning something else," she urges editors.
If you want to start an argument, there are few better ways than assigning something a grade.
SCALE-UP stands for "Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs". During a SCALE-UP session, students are assigned something interesting to investigate.
When five blue furry giants enroll, each one is assigned something to learn: Gully gets Irish step dancing; MacDuff works on interpretive dance.
After this, I was briefly assigned something called "the race beat", which was basically intended to mean covering black civil rights complaints against the city in that highly polarised era.
