invite to a party

Meaning

This phrase means to ask someone to attend a social gathering or celebration. It is a common social gesture used to build and maintain friendships. We always use the preposition 'to' for the event.

Examples

• Are you going to invite your coworkers to the party?

  Are you going to invite your coworkers to the party?

• They invited us to a party at their new house.

  They invited us to a party at their new house.

• I want to invite Sarah to my birthday party next week.

  I want to invite Sarah to my birthday party next week.

• She was so happy when he invited her to the party.

  She was so happy when he invited her to the party.

• Who else should we invite to the party?

  Who else should we invite to the party?

Common Mistakes

• ✗ She invited me at her party.

  ✓ She invited me to her party.

  We always invite someone 'to' an event, not 'at' or 'in' it.

• ✗ I will make an invite to him.

  ✓ I will invite him.

  'Invite' is primarily a verb. While 'an invite' is used as informal slang for 'an invitation', 'make an invite' is grammatically incorrect.

Related Expressions

Practice

• If you want to celebrate your graduation, you should ___ your friends.

  💡 ask your friends to come to a celebration

  Show answer

  invite to a party

• He didn't know how to ___ his new classmates.

  💡 ask them to come to a social event

  Show answer

  invite to a party