Unit 8 Grammar Worksheet 1

Name

Simple Past Verb be

1 Complete the sentences using was or were.
1. The beach was very crowded yesterday!
2. The street market closed on Sunday.
3. The mountains too high to climb.
4. James at the disco last night instead
of doing his homework.
5. Sara and her friends happy to go to
the amusement park.
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6. Our holiday in Acapulco fantastic!
7. The weather so bad we couldn’t go swimming.

2 Rewrite the sentences using the information in brackets.

1. The aquarium was open on Monday.
(?) Was the aquarium open on Monday?
2. Juan and Denise were in the mountains last year.
(-)

3. My parents weren’t at the cinema last week.
(+)

4. Was it sunny at the beach?
(-)

5. The art museum was fun.
(?)

6. Jeff wasn’t on the tour of the historic centre.
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