NDA (II) 2025 General Ability Test · Question 6 of 147

Correct — A. Reporting a statement uses 'told' with an object ('the group'); the pronoun 'we' shifts to 'they', the present perfect 'have had' back-shifts to the past perfect 'had had', 'today' becomes 'that day', and 'it is time' becomes 'it was time'. Option A applies every one of these changes correctly.

• (b)Ayushi asked the group that they had had enough of suffering this day and it was time to march forward — Uses 'asked', which reports a question, not a statement, and keeps 'this day' instead of 'that day'.
• (c)Ayushi told the group that they had enough of suffering and that it is time to march forward — Fails to back-shift ('had enough' instead of 'had had') and leaves 'it is time' in the present tense.
• (d)Ayushi told the group that we had had enough of suffering this day and it was time to march forward — Keeps the pronoun 'we' instead of shifting it to 'they', and uses 'this day' rather than 'that day'.

Direct-to-indirect speech of a statement: use 'told + object', back-shift the tense, and change the time and pronoun words (we → they, today → that day).

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  'Ravi said, "I am leaving now."' In indirect speech this becomes —

  • (a)Ravi said that he was leaving then
  • (b)Ravi said that I am leaving now
  • (c)Ravi asked that he was leaving then
  • (d)Ravi said that he is leaving now

  Answer(a) Ravi said that he was leaving then — I→he, am leaving→was leaving, now→then.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  When a statement is reported, the reporting verb usually used with an object is —

  • (a)asked
  • (b)told
  • (c)said
  • (d)exclaimed

  Answer(b) told — 'told' takes an object (told them / the group), unlike 'said'.