The phrase "attributed an" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where something is assigned or credited to a source, but it requires a noun following "an" to be grammatically correct.
Example: "The discovery was attributed to an ancient civilization."
Alternatives: "credited to" or "ascribed to".
Corticospinal excitability was significantly increased when subjects attributed an observed action to another person whereas attribution of the same action to self suppressed excitability [18].
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article mistakenly attributed an opinion regarding photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield's work to Michele Schreiber.
The column also attributed an honor erroneously to the novelist A. B. Yehoshua.
One health volunteer attributed an outbreak of fevers to a cold breeze, and many people are sick from diarrhea.
An article on Thursday about Minoru Mori, Japan's most prolific developer, attributed an erroneous distinction to one of his buildings.
SUNDAY REVIEW A contribution to the Room for Debate forum last Sunday attributed an erroneous distinction to President Obama.
An opinion article on Jan . 29about the Chilean student activist Camila Vallejo attributed an erroneous distinction to Chile's economy.
Auditors attributed an additional $26.6 million in overruns to the failure of transit officials to monitor expenses.
He attributed an increase in shisha smoking among the young to an increase in the number of cafes, where smoking shisha is a cheap way of hanging out.
Last year, California officials attributed an energy shortage and rolling blackouts to market manipulation by out-of-state electricity generating or trading companies, including Enron.
The researchers attributed an even bigger impact to a practice known as opposite trading, which occurs when funds within a family take the opposite sides of trades.
