Choose the correct response. These are my friends, Chris and Simon. I like... very much.

The correct answer is b. them.

Explanation:

In this sentence, "I like... very much" is the second part of the sentence where we describe what we like. The first part of the sentence is "These are my friends, Chris and Simon". In English, we have pronouns like "they", "them", and "their", which are used to refer to a group of people or things instead of repeating the name of the people every time. Here we need to chose the right pronoun.

* **they** is used as the subject of the sentence (when the pronoun is doing something, for example, *they are playing*).
* **them** is used as the object of the sentence (when the pronoun is receiving the action, for example, *I like them*).
* **their** is used as a possessive pronoun (when the pronoun shows ownership, for example, *their books*).

In the provided sentence we are talking about what *I like*, so Chris and Simon are being the object of *I like*, therefore, the correct choice is "them".