Listening with Was and Were - Part 2

Listen to sentences and decide if they are true or false based on the use of "was" and "were"

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Highton was a nice town sixty years ago
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    Rule: Was / Were ShowHide

    was or were

    The past of am, is and are.

    • I / he / she / it → was: Peter was a policeman.
    • you / we / they → were: You were very late this morning.

    Negative

    • wasn't (was not): Mary wasn't ill last week.
    • weren't (were not): They weren't at home.

    Questions

    Was the movie interesting? – Yes, it was.
    Were your friends lazy? – No, they weren't.

    there was · there were

    • one thing: There was only one little shop.
    • many things: There were a lot of people.
    • negative: There wasn't a pool. There weren't many shops.

    A group seen as one takes was: My family wasn't in Madrid last summer.

    yesterday · last night · last week · last summer · this morning · when I was five

    Fifteen short recordings, each with a sentence to judge: true or false? Listen for was, were, there was and there were. Five come up in a random order every time you start.

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