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GRAMMAR SUMMARY Unit 9
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9a be: was/were 9b Regular past simple verbs

Use was and were to talk about the past. Use
is ➞ was, are ➞ were Use the past simple to talk about the past.

Affirmative Yukio Mishima was a writer. He lived from 1925
I/He/She/It was to 1970.
Japanese. I started a new job yesterday.
You/We/They were We visited some friends last weekend.
Negative Form
I/He/She/It wasn’t
famous.
You/We/They weren’t Affirmative lived in New York.
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I/You/He/She/It/We/They visited Vietnam last year.

Regular past simple verbs end in -ed. The form is
the same for I, you, he, etc.
live ➞ lived

Spelling changes check ➞ checked

www.english0905.com Gabby Salazar is a scientist. Albert Einstein was German. Verbs ending in -e live ➞ lived
Most verbs
finish ➞ finished
add -ed
open ➞ opened
He was born in 1879.
She was born in the
United States.
use ➞ used
add -d
REMEMBER!
Verbs ending in -y
study ➞ studied
wasn’t = was not, weren’t = were not
try ➞ tried
change -y to -ied
For more practice, see Exercises 1 and 2.
For more practice, see Exercise 5.
9a be: was/were question
forms 9c there was/there were

Questions Singular
Was I/he/she/it happy? There was a book in my bag. (but now there isn’t)
Were you/we/they on TV? Plural

Short answers There were some books in my bag. (but now there
Yes, was. aren’t)
I/he/she/it
wasn’t.
No, www.english0905.com Today
Yesterday
Yes, were.
you/we/they
No weren’t.
Affirmative form ➞ Question form
She was an engineer. ➞ Was she an engineer?

she was ➞ was she

For more practice, see Exercises 3 and 4. There were some books in There aren’t any books in my
my bag yesterday. bag today.
For more practice, see Exercise 6.

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