To Be: Simple Past – Escola Liverpool

To Be: Simple Past

Há apenas duas formas para o verbo “to be” no passado simples: was , were. Observe a conjugação :

Statement	Negative	Question
I was	I was not	Was I ?
You were	You were not	Were you ?
He was	He was not	Was he ?
She was	She was not	Was she ?
It was	It was not	Was it ?
We were	We were not	Were we ?
You were	You were not	Were you ?
They were	They were not	Were they ?

I was = Eu era / Eu estava

Podemos fazer contrações na forma negativa :

WAS NOT = WASN’T

WERE NOT = WEREN’T

Ex: We were at the wharf yesterday.

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