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Affirmative Negative Interrogative: A Fire Some People

This document provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the verb "to be" in the simple past tense in English. It demonstrates their use with singular and plural subjects, including with "there" constructions. Examples are given of using these forms to talk about events, people's attributes and backgrounds, and weather/environment descriptions.

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Affirmative Negative Interrogative: A Fire Some People

This document provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the verb "to be" in the simple past tense in English. It demonstrates their use with singular and plural subjects, including with "there" constructions. Examples are given of using these forms to talk about events, people's attributes and backgrounds, and weather/environment descriptions.

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Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I was I wasnt Was I?
You were you werent Were you?
He was he wasnt Was he?
She was she wasnt Was she?
It was it wasnt Was it?
We were we werent Were we?
You were you werent Were you?
They were they werent Were they?

There was a fire in the building.
(=subiectul este exprimat dupa verb)
There were some people in the market.

There wasnt a fire in the building. /
There was no fire in the building.
There werent any people in the market. /
There were no people in the market.

Was there a fire in the building?
Were there any people in the market?
Where were you born? = Unde te-ai nscut?
I was born in Bucharest. = Sunt nscut in Bucuresti.

Where was your mother born?
Where was she born?
She was born in Cluj.

Who was George Washington?
He was the first US president.
He was the first president of the USA.

Quite /kuait/ = destul de
Quiet /kuaiat/ = linistit

It was his thirteenth birthday.
He was thirteen.

How many people were at the party?
There were thirty people at the party.

Who wasnt at the party?
His brothers werent there.
Why werent they there?
They werent there because they were in the USA.
What was the weather like? = Cum a fost vremea?
It was hot. = A fost cald.

How was the weather? -> expresia nu e corecta

What was the food like? = Cum a fost mancarea?
What was the teacher like?
What was the hotel like?

What were the people like? = Cum au fost oamenii?
They were nice and friendly.

Why was it a special day?
Because England won the World Cup. (win / won)

20 de oameni au fost la petrecere.
Twenty people were at the party.

Au fost 20 de oameni la petrecere.
There were 20 people at the party.

In What year were you born?
I was born in 1982.

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