Question

Choose the sentence which correctly conveys the meaning of the sentence given below-
We did not meet any other friend at the party.
a. We met no friends at the party.
b. We met only one friend at the party.
c. We did not meet any of our friends at the party.
d. We met all our friends at the party.

Answer 1

Hint: The above given sentence includes ‘any other’ which is used to indicate a single unspecified person or a thing.

Complete answer:
As given in the hint, the given sentence expresses that X and Y did not meet any other friend, but met only one friend at the party.
Example- Any other person would have helped her with the luggage. Here, we can understand that any other person except for ‘X’, who is unnamed or unspecified would have helped Y with her luggage.
Now, let’s decipher the meaning of the given options:
- Option a- ‘We met no friends at the party’ indicates that X and Y did not meet any of their friends at the party. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
- Option b- ‘We met only one friend at the party’ indicates that X and Y met only one of their friends at the party. Hence, it is the correct option.
- Option c- ‘We did not meet any of our friends at the party’ indicates that X and Y didn’t meet any of their friends at the party. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
- Option d- ‘We met all our friends at the party’ indicates that X and Y met all of their friends at the party. Hence, it is an incorrect option.

> The correct answer is Option ‘b’.

Note: We use ‘any other’ to denote a person or a thing that is unnamed or not referred to in a sentence.