To Be Past Tense

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To Be Past Tense

To Be - Questions

To create questions with To Be, you put the Verb before the Subject.

Before the verb you can also have a WH- Question word (Why, Who, What, Where etc.)

Were you happy? Yes, I was. Why were you happy? Because I was promoted at work.

Were you sick? Was he surprised? Was she from Italy?

To Be - Negative Sentences

To Be - Negative Contractions

Negative contractions: wasn't or weren't

The negative of To Be can be made by adding not after the verb (was or were)

I was not tired this morning. You were not crazy.

To Be - Affirmative

I was tired this morning. You were very good. He was the best in his class. She was late for work.

The past tense of To Be has two forms: WAS and WERE

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