The phrase "attributing something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that a particular quality, action, or idea is being assigned to a specific source or cause.
Example: "The researchers are attributing the increase in temperature to climate change."
Alternatives: "assigning something" or "crediting something".
LinkedIn has also stepped up its attribution in terms of sharing, by attributing something you re-share to the person who shared it with you.
Attributing something to Mark Twain adds to the joke.
Hood (2011) notes the expression 'managerial risks' does not have a clearly established meaning and adopts the expression 'blame risk' identifying at least two components of blame, which is the act of attributing something considered to be bad or wrong to some person or entity.
Indeed, when we look at the ways in which we talk about a pain, we seem to be attributing something bad to a bodily location by reporting its somatosensory perception there, just as we report the existence of a rotten apple on the table by reporting its visual perception.
Still the puzzle remains: what is it that I am doing when I appear to be attributing something to the back of my hand by correctly uttering (5) — if, as agreed, I am not attributing a mental experience or a physical condition there?
You're still saying "you," though: "When you said that…." But it's not "You are.... .. You're not attributing something to them.
I never automatically attribute something to aging, I always do a thorough exam for any new symptom or problem.
"I would have plausible deniability if someone wanted to attribute something to me," said Ms. Roberts, who lives in Austin, Tex.
11.17am: Frédéric Michel has told the inqury that when he attributed something to "JH" in his emails, "for me it meant the office of the secretary of state".
The unhappy couples tend to automatically attribute something like an unreturned phone call to a permanent inner flaw in the partner ("He's too selfish to care about me") rather than a temporary external situation, like an unusually busy day at work.
Write a page in which you attribute something of that desire and that difficulty to this other person.
