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We Use The Past Simple To Describe Actions in The Past. Short Answers Questions Negative Affirmative

This document provides information about using the past simple tense in English to describe actions that occurred in the past. It includes conjugations of the verb "to be" in the past simple, examples of past time expressions, question tags, exercises filling in blanks with was/were and rewriting sentences in the affirmative and negative forms.

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We Use The Past Simple To Describe Actions in The Past. Short Answers Questions Negative Affirmative

This document provides information about using the past simple tense in English to describe actions that occurred in the past. It includes conjugations of the verb "to be" in the past simple, examples of past time expressions, question tags, exercises filling in blanks with was/were and rewriting sentences in the affirmative and negative forms.

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We use the Past Simple to describe actions in the

past.
Affirmative
I was
You were
She was
He was
It was
We were
You were
They were

Negative

Questions

Short answers

I wasnt

Was I?

Yes I was / No, I wasnt

You werent

Were you ?

Yes, you were / No, you

She wasnt

Was she?

werent

He wasnt

Was he ?

Yes, she was / No, she

Was it?

wasnt

Were we?

Yes, he was / No, he wasn

It wasnt
We werent
You werent
They werent

Were you?
Were they?

t
Yes, it was / No, it wasnt
Yes, we were / No, we

Short forms:

was not = wasnt

were not = werent

Past time adverbials


Yesterday, yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon, yesterday evening / last night,
Three days ago, a week ago, a month ago, a year ago, last week, last Monday, last
month, last year, last summer, some time ago, in 1985,

Question tags
he was a famous actor, wasnt he?
I wasnt at the cinema last night, was I?
It was very funny, was it?
These shoes wasnt sheep, were they?
Those boys were nice, werent they?
You werent in Paris last summer, were you?

Fill in the blanks with was or were


Last year Mary _________ 10 years old.
Last summer my family _________ in London.
Last weekend my friends _________ at home.
Yesterday I _________ ill.
The children _________ happy.
Mary _________ late for dinner.
Mr. Smith _________ my English teacher.

make sentences and put the verb To Be into the correct form of the Past Simple
Unhappy / to be / I _______________________________________________
Mark / to be / angry.______________________________________________
hot / to be/ it ___________________________________________________
Mary and Sue / to be / late ________________________________________
Ann / to be / my best friend. ______________________________________

Rewrite these sentences in the negative


I was with my parents in the mountains.
________________________________________________________________
Susan was a teacher.
________________________________________________________________
They were born 1971.
________________________________________________________________
They were my grandparents.
________________________________________________________________
It was sunny and warm.
________________________________________________________________
They were born in Lisbon.
________________________________________________________________

A) Write yes / No questions and the answers according to the information in

Mary was ill last month.


_________________________________________________________?
Yes, _____________________________________________________.

Mary and I were in London last month.


_________________________________________________________?
No, _____________________________________________________. (Paris)

Helen was born in Lisbon.


_________________________________________________________?
No , _____________________________________________________. (Porto)

Luis de Cames was famous for his poems.


_________________________________________________________?
Yes, _____________________________________________________.

Mr. Smith was a famous actor, _________________?


I wasnt ill last night, _________________?
Those singers were in Paris last month, _________________?
I was 10 years old in 1981, _________________?
Mary hasnt at home last night, _________________?
The Scorpions werent in Portugal last year, _________________?
Marilyn Manroe was born in 1926, _________________?
Beethoven wasnt German, _________________?
I was a cute baby, _________________?
Diana Spencer was a princess, _________________?

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