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To Be Past Tense

When forming negative sentences with the past tense of "to be," you simply add "not" after the verb, resulting in phrases like "was not" or "were not." These can be contracted to "wasn'

To Be Past Tense

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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