Convert from direct speech to indirect speech : Nitin said to his brother, “What a beautiful painting it is ?”

Nitin wondered before his brother that it was a beautiful painting

Nitin wondered to his brother that what a beautiful painting it was

Nitin exclaimed that it is a beautiful painting

Nitin asked his brother whether it was a beautiful painting

Convert from indirect speech to direct speech : The teacher asked her students why they had been quiet in the previous class.

The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in the previous class?”

The teacher asked her students, “Why were they keeping quiet in the previous class?”

The teacher said to her students, “Why had you been quiet in the previous class?”

The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in the previous class?”

Convert from direct speech to indirect speech : Charu said to her friend, “I want you to be here at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting.”

Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting

Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting

Charu requested her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting

Charu told her friend that she would want her to be here at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting

Improvement Of Sentence — NDA Previous Year Questions

53 solved PYQs · 2021–2025 · English

Solved PYQs: 53
Years covered: 2021–2025
Avg / year: ~13
Subject: English

How many NDA questions come from Improvement Of Sentence?

Improvement Of Sentence has contributed 53 questions to National Defence Academy Examination papers between 2021 and 2025 — an average of about 13 questions a year. That count is measured from EByAi’s bank of 15,695 NDA questions, not estimated from a syllabus. Every one of the 53 questions carries a written, step-by-step solution, and each is tagged to Improvement Of Sentence within English, so you can drill this chapter across every year at once instead of hunting through paper PDFs. Practising a chapter’s full PYQ history is the fastest way to learn the patterns examiners reuse.

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Question 1 · NDA 2025
Convert from direct speech to indirect speech :

Nitin said to his brother, “What a beautiful painting it is ?”
1. (A) $Nitin wondered to his brother that what a beautiful painting it was$
2. (B) $Nitin wondered before his brother that it was a beautiful painting$
3. (C) $Nitin exclaimed that it is a beautiful painting$
4. (D) $Nitin asked his brother whether it was a beautiful painting$
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$Answer: (B) Nitin wondered before his brother that it was a beautiful painting$
Question 2 · NDA 2025
Convert from indirect speech to direct speech :

The teacher asked her students why they had been quiet in the previous class.
1. (A) $The teacher asked her students, “Why were they keeping quiet in the previous class?”$
2. (B) $The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in the previous class?”$
3. (C) $The teacher said to her students, “Why had you been quiet in the previous class?”$
4. (D) $The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in the previous class?”$
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$Answer: (B) The teacher said to her students, “Why were you quiet in the previous class?”$
Question 3 · NDA 2025
Convert from direct speech to indirect speech :

Charu said to her friend, “I want you to be here at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting.”
1. (A) $Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting$
2. (B) $Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting$
3. (C) $Charu requested her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. tomorrow for the meeting$
4. (D) $Charu told her friend that she would want her to be here at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting$
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$Answer: (A) Charu told her friend that she wanted her to be there at 6.00 p.m. the next day for the meeting$
Question 4 · NDA 2023
Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part. Indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

(a) She didn't (b) tell anybody (c) about her plans. (d) No Error
1. (A) $A$
2. (B) $B$
3. (C) $C$
4. (D) $D$
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$Answer: (D) D$
Question 5 · NDA 2023
Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part. Indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

(a) I will watch a film (b) if I finish the work (c) in time. (d) No Error
1. (A) $A$
2. (B) $B$
3. (C) $C$
4. (D) $D$
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$Answer: (A) A$

Improvement Of Sentence questions by year

Year	Questions	Share of chapter questions
2025	5
2023	20
2022	19
2021	9

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