attended
v.v. to go to an event, a meeting, or a place like a school. You use this when you are physically present at a specific gathering.
v. to be present at an event, meeting, or function. Transitive — requires a direct object representing the location or occasion.
She attended the meeting yesterday morning.
Over five hundred guests attended the wedding ceremony held at the historic downtown cathedral.
Although the lecture was optional, nearly every student in the department attended to hear the visiting professor's insights on modern architecture.
The verb is transitive and does not require a preposition before the object.
I attended to the meetingI attended the meetingAttend is transitive when it means 'to be present at'; learners often incorrectly add the preposition 'to'.