form
affirmative |
negative |
interrogative |
| I was you were he / she/ it was we were you were they were |
I was not / I wasn’t you were not / you weren’t he / she/ it was not / he / she/ it wasn’t we were not / we weren’t you were not / you weren’t they were not / they weren’t |
was I? were you? was he / she / it? were we? were you? were they? |
exercises
the verb to be (was, were) in the past tense
- exercise 1: choose was or were
- exercise 2: two exercises for practising the choice between was and were
- exercise 3: choose was or were
- exercise 4: fill in wasn’t or weren’t
- exercise 5: make questions with was and were
- exercise 6: fill in was or were
- exercise 7: fill in was or were
- exercise 8: fill in was or were
- exercise 9: fill in was or were
- exercise 10: choose was or were
- exercise 11: two exercises for practising the choice between was and were
useful pages
- exercises for practising short yes/no answers (Are you tired? Yes, I am / No, I’m not)
- exercises for practising the tag-question (He is going, isn’t he)
- exercises for practising am/is/are
- exercises for practising the simple past
