The president summoned top lawmakers in both parties to discuss long-running talks on a national security spending bill and related border security negotiations.
I wanted to comment on the title of the article and the fact that it is gramatically incorrect. Why didn’t they use the word “invites”? The article uses the word in the first sentence. It’s hard for me to enjoy journalism when it’s filled with distracting mistakes like this. When your profession is writing why are these kind of mistakes allowed. If I made mistakes analogous to this in my career I would not be keeping my job very long.
I’ll give you the second exception but I’ve never seen the first one used. However, you are missing the fact that in both of your examples you can use the subject as an action. To lunch is to eat lunch and to prom is the shorted version of promenade.
White House is a proper noun and cannot be used the same way as your two examples.
I wanted to comment on the title of the article and the fact that it is gramatically incorrect. Why didn’t they use the word “invites”? The article uses the word in the first sentence. It’s hard for me to enjoy journalism when it’s filled with distracting mistakes like this. When your profession is writing why are these kind of mistakes allowed. If I made mistakes analogous to this in my career I would not be keeping my job very long.
It’s less common, but valid. “Ask to lunch”, “Ask to prom”.
I’ll give you the second exception but I’ve never seen the first one used. However, you are missing the fact that in both of your examples you can use the subject as an action. To lunch is to eat lunch and to prom is the shorted version of promenade. White House is a proper noun and cannot be used the same way as your two examples.