Question

I said to them,"were you here yesterday night"(change the mode o narration)

Answer 1

I asked them if they were there the previous night.

$\blue{Additional \: information :}$

• A conversation between two people ie between the first person and the second person is called direct speech.

• Example - Kshitij said to Amisha, " I'll rock there."

• When the same dialogues are reported to a third person, it's called indirect speech.

• Example - Kshitij told Amisha that he would rock there.

$\green{Rules:}$

• All the tenses of the direct speech are converted to the past tense in the indirect speech, but if the sentence is already in past tense, it turns to past perfect tense.

• Example -

1. Suraj said to Mayank, " We watch a movie daily.

=> Suraj told Mayank that they watched a movie daily.

• If the direct speech is a universal truth, the tense of the sentence doesn't change in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Kshitij said, " The sun rises in the east."

=> Kshitij said that the sun rises in the east.

• If the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, the tense of the verb isn't changed in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Anushka says , " I write a letter. "

=> Anushka says that she writes a letter.

• If the person addressed to, reports the speech, the second person in the direct speech becomes first person in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Ksitij said to me ,"You're an idiot."

=> Kshitij told me that I was an idiot.

Answer 2

I asked them if they were there the previous night.

Hope this helps you. ..