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Sorry if my reply sounded a little strong. However, I think grammar rules can be misleading and do not always relate to what people actually say. This is one of these cases. In the Uk it is normal nowadays to use, ‘they’ to refer to a singular person when the gender of the person is not specified, as in the example above. In speech it is used all the time and sounds completely normal.

As you said, ‘one of….’ and ‘one’ and ‘ones’ are still used as pronouns. this is completely normal and is different to the usage described above.

I’m sorry to disagree but 1b is not correct. I would never ever use this. I’ve never heard anyone in the UK use it and would correct any of my students who said it.

The use of ‘one’ in the UK is seen as rather archaic and is only used by a very small number of people nowadays. Usually older upper class people. Other people only use it for comedy value and do not use it seriously.

In conversation and informal writing ‘they’ is now used in place of ‘one’. I’d be interested to know if this is the same in the US.

In modern English we use ‘they’ to refer to a person whose gender hasn’t been specified. As the question is very general and it isn’t clear whether the friend is male or female we would actually say:

One of my friends didn’t come to the party, did they?

If you say, ‘did he?’ the speakers are talking about a male person only.