What does it mean?

[hoangkha]

Dear teachers!
- Steve liked the company of others.
What does it mean, please?

[5jj]

He liked to be with other people.

[jahildebrandt]

Not a teacher.

The sentence also implies that Steve no longer likes the company of others, or that perhaps Steve is dead or otherwise incapacitated (in a coma or something.)

[5jj]

It does not necessarily imply that. In the absence of context, all we can say is that he liked the company of others at some unspcified time in the past. We have no idea of whether he still does.

'He used to like the company of others' does strongly imply that he no longer does.

[hoangkha]

This is the original sentence.
- Steve liked the company of others.
A. Steve found a club
B. Steve liked other people's company better than his own.
C. Steve founed a club.
D. Steve liked the other company.
The key is C.
I can't understand why.

[5jj]

This is the original sentence.
- Steve liked the company of others.
A. Steve found a club......B. Steve liked other people's company better than his own.
C. Steve founed a club....D. Steve liked the other company.....
The key is C.

None of the answers is appropriate. C is not correct English

[jahildebrandt]

It does not necessarily imply that. In the absence of context, all we can say is that he liked the company of others at some unspcified time in the past. We have no idea of whether he still does.

'He used to like the company of others' does strongly imply that he no longer does.

True. I suppose I meant to say that it could imply those meanings; not that it does.

[Tdol]

B is the closest- if I had to choose one, that is the one I would go for.

[hoangkha]

Thank all the teachers .
But I don't know whose idea is correct.

[Tdol]

For me:

- Steve liked the company of others.

A. Steve found a club
There's nothing in the sentence to suggest he found anything

B. Steve liked other people's company better than his own. OK
It does have the idea that he preferred to be with other people than alone.

C. Steve founed a club.
Founed is incorrect. It may be founded spelled wrong, but there's nothing in the sentence about founding clubs

D. Steve liked the other company.
The other company would refer to a firm/business