Past Tense - was/were

My dear students,

I do hope that you wrote a a good test today.

Below you find the new piece of grammar that we are going to learn. You have to learn and practise the forms.

Past Tense - Verb "to be"

Infinitive

to be (is, am, are)

Past form
was, were

Singular - Einzahl

I was - Ich war

You were - Du warst

He was - Er war

She was - Sie war

It was - Er, sie, es war

Plural - Mehrzahl

We were - Wir waren

You were - Ihr wart

They were - Sie waren

Question:

John was at home. Was John at home?

They were late. Were they late?

Negation:

Sandy was at the cinema yesterday.

Sandy was not (wasn't) at the cinema yesterday

The children were in Vienna last week.

The children were not (weren't) in Vienna last week.

Signalwords:

yesterday - gestern

last weeek (month, year) - letzte Woche (Monat, Jahr)

in 2001

the day before yesterday - vorgestern

three days (minutes, weeks, months, years) ago - vor drei Tagen (Minuten, Wochen, Monaten, Jahren)

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5


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