Past- was/were/couldOnline version “Was” / “were” are the past tense forms of a verb that you already know very well: the verb “to be”, which in Spanish translates as both “to be” and “to be”. by Gerardo Daniel Mosqueda Beltrán 1 Introduction If in the present simple, the verb to be has three forms (am, is, are), in the past simple, it has two: was and were. 2 Difference Was corresponds to the first person singular (I) and the third person singular (he, she, it); were is used for other people (you, we, they). 3 Examples 4 Comparison Let's compare the affirmative present form of the verb to be with the past: 5 Present The affirmative form of to be in the present simple is: 6 Past simple The affirmative form of to be in the past simple is: 7 Contraction As can be seen, in the past simple, there is no contraction between the pronoun and the verb to be. Both was and were appear alone. 8 Contraction However, when the phrase is negative, the contraction is between was and not and were and not: 9 Contraction examples 10 Questions In English, you have to change the order of the sentence to ask the question. 11 Excercices
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