For this question, the words in capital letters have emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates. They came with me to the MEETIN...

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In English, emphatic stress highlights the word that carries the most important new or contrasting information in a sentence. The stressed word is the one that corrects, clarifies, or contrasts with something previously stated or implied.

In the sentence "They came with me to the MEETING," the stress falls on MEETING. This means the speaker is emphasising the destination or event - they went to a meeting, not to some other event. The stress corrects or contrasts the type of event.

The question that would prompt this response must be one that gets the event wrong. Among the options, the question "Did they come with me to the party?" suggests a different event (a party), which the speaker corrects by stressing MEETING. The other questions change other elements of the sentence (whether they came, how they arrived, or who came), which would require stress on different words, not on MEETING.

The correct answer is the question that asks about coming to the party, since the emphatic stress on MEETING corrects that element.