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Question

Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:

I met him yesterday night at the party.

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SSC CGL 2025 Tier 1 Question Paper (25-Sep-2025) (Shift 3)
The correct answer is

met him last night

The phrase "yesterday night" is incorrect English. While we say "yesterday morning", "yesterday afternoon" and "yesterday evening", the night before today is idiomatically expressed as "last night", never "yesterday night". So the time expression must be corrected.

The action is a single, completed event in the past ("I met him... at the party"), so the Simple Past tense "met" is the right verb form. Combining the correct verb with the correct time phrase gives "met him last night". Hence, the answer is "met him last night".

"Had met" (past perfect) is wrong because there is no earlier past action to relate it to. "Meet him yesterday night" retains the faulty "yesterday night" and also wrongly uses the present "meet". "Was meeting him last night" (past continuous) describes an ongoing action and does not suit a single completed meeting.

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