WAS or WERE

Complete with WAS

or WERE.

Complete with THERE WAS or

THERE WERE.

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1 It was raining a lot last week.
2 We at the cinema last night. The
movie great!
3 My sister in Amsterdam last 2
week.
4 They at the theatre last night. 1 There was an apple on my desk.
5 All my friends at the party on 2 a lot of people at my
Saturday night. birthday party yesterday.
6 She late yesterday! 3 a great movie on TV last
7 The cookies you made night.
delicious. 4 someone in my room. I can
8I in the school soccer team tell it.
last year. 5 a supermarket in my street
9 Jane and her sister absent last ten years ago.
week. 6 only ten people in the
10 My mum on a business trip theatre last Friday.
three days ago. 7 no computers a hundred
11 It very hot last night. years ago.
8 anyone in the café last
night.
9 hundreds of people on the
beach yesterday.
If the noun that follows 10 any messages for you.
is singular we use there 11 any bananas in the bowl.
was.
There was a dog in my
garden.

Jake at the cinema

Mike at the sports centre
Tobby and Curly in the park
Jane, Jake's mum at the hairdresser's
John, Jake's dad at the theatre
Mike's parents at the restaurant

Where were they yesterday? Look at the table and correct the sentences. 3
1 Jake was in the park. Wrong! He wasn't in the park. He was at the cinema.
2 Mike was at the theatre.
3 Tobby and Curly were at the hairdresser's.

4 Jane was at the sports centre.

5 John was at the restaurant.

6 Mike's parents were at the cinema.
 Look at the table in Exercise 3
and answer the questions.

1 Was Jake at the cinema? Yes, he was. 4

2 Was Mike at the theatre?
3 Were Tobby and Curly at the
hairdresser's?
4 Was Jane at the hairdresser's?
5 Was Jane in the park?
6 Were Mike's parents at the
restaurant?

In short answers we use

personal pronoun and
was/were or wasn’t
/weren’t. We do not
Make repeat the rest of the
questions. sentence.
To make a question we put
was/were at the
beginning of the sentence.
Was John at the party?
John was at the party?

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Make wh-questions.
1 When / you / in Paris?
When were you in Paris?
5 2 How old / in 2000?
1 you / in Paris / were / last summer?
Were you in Paris last summer? 3 Where / she / yesterday morning?
2 she / at home / last night / was?
4 Why / they / late / last night?
3 was / snowing / it / yesterday?
5 Where / you / at 6 o'clock?
4 she / at the party / was / last night?
6 When / your mother / in the
5 your parents / in Germany / in 1989? cinema?

6 Tom and Jane / at school / were? 7 Why / sad / yesterday?

7 was / a cinema / there / in Paris / in 8 Where / your brother / on

1940? Monday?

8 in the park / they / were / yesterday 9 When / they / in the park?

morning?
10 How long / you / in Germany?

11 Why / your mother / angry at you

/ yesterday?
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Complete with WAS/WASN’T or WERE/
WEREN’T.
Last night my grandpa showed me the
picture of our neighbourhood 50 years ago.
There (1) only 7 houses. There
(2) any buildings! There (3)
any cars in the streets. There (4)
To make a wh-question we
a bakery and a greengrocer’s. There put wh-word before
(5) a DVD rental or a big was/were
supermarket. My grandpa says that people Where was John yesterday?
(6) happier. Everything (7) Where John was yesterday?
different then!