The phrase "attend instead" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting an alternative option for attendance or participation in an event or activity.
Example: "If you can't make it to the conference, you can attend instead the online webinar."
Alternatives: "participate instead" or "join instead."
Attendance and grades - There is no University-wide policy on attendance and no minimum number of classes that students are required to attend - instead, students are expected to show up "regularly". Lectures typically do not take attendance, and in many if not most courses, attendance has no impact on grades.
Vice President Al Gore will attend instead.
The Afghan defense minister is likely to attend instead, with little fanfare.
Cleora Francis-O'Connor, whose son was 17 when he was shot and killed in South Providence, will attend instead.
Two countries that previously had announced that they would not attend -- Ukraine and the Philippines -- decided to attend instead, the committee said.
Mr. Abdullah, the opposition politician, opted to remain in Kabul and send lesser-known members of his party, the National Coalition of Afghanistan, to attend instead.
Mr. Rodham attended instead.
Would society have been better off if they had attended instead of the blacks?
Mr. Longhi said that he had attended instead because he is more familiar with the technical aspects of the steam network and the investigation into the blast.
Several of those who speak say that social service organizations overlook specific assaults and rapes, attending instead to systemic problems like poverty.
He is less interested in beauty's political benefits or betrayals (although like Mr. Nehamas, he is reluctant to seek universals), attending instead to the ways the eye perceives each artwork.
