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Are the following sentences grammatically correct?

  1. He asked me if I was depressed the day before.
  2. He asked me if I had been depressed the day before.

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Both are correct. Some speakers will "backshift" the tense in the reported speech, while others will not. There is no requirement to do so.

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"yesterday" must be the preterite, when it comes to "the day before", preterite and past perfect tenses are right. The phrase of "had been" stress the procedure.

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