I was

Lesson 1

I was
We were
You were
You were
He/she/it was
They were

 

Negatives
I wasn’t
We weren’t
You weren’t
You weren’t
He wasn’t
They weren’t

 

Question
Was I?
Were we?
Were you?
Were you?
Was he?
Were they?

 

These are forms of the verb to be in the past. We use the verb to be in the past in about 3% of sentences in spoken English.

Examples

I was six years old. I saw a nice picture. The picture was in a book. It was a picture of a big snake.

Read the book The Little Prince and practise grammar for Level 2.