What does SOME statement mean?

• A. All members of Group A have quality B.
• B. If Group A, then B.
• C. Only a portion of Group A has quality B.
• D. No members of Group A have quality B.

Answer: (C)

The main idea is existential meaning: some means there exists at least one member of Group A that has quality B. It does not promise that everyone in Group A has B, nor that nobody has B.

The best choice expresses that there are members with B, but not all of them. It captures the sense of partial presence—there is at least one with B, but not the entire group. The other options would imply universal inclusion, universal exclusion, or a conditional statement, which don’t match the meaning of “some.”