I _______ sad. They ______ working. Learn how to make basic “to be” sentences in English in the past tense. I’ll teach you how to form past tense positive and negative sentences and questions that use the verb “to be”. We will talk about past simple and past continuous. Learn how to make sentences such as “I am happy.” and “He wasn’t sleeping.” I’ll also show you when we use past simple and when we use past continuous. Test your understanding with the quiz!
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In this lesson:
00:00 Introduction
00:51 “To be“ in Simple Past
02:13 Example sentences with “was“
03:34 Negative form of “was“: “wasn’t“
04:54 Example sentences with “were“
06:41 Question form of “to be“ in the past
10:41 “To be“ in Past Continuous
13:10 “To be“ in Past Continuous: Negative form
15:03 “To be“ in Past Continuous: Question form
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