English Grammar : The Simple Past Form of Be

Learn Grammar | English Grammar : The Simple Past Form of Be | We use was and were as the past form of be. We use past tense when we talk about the past.

Present		Past
I am happy You are happy She is happy He is happy We are happy They are happy	I am not happy You are not happy She is not happy He is not happy We are not happy They are not happy	I was happy You were happy She was happy He was happy We were happy They were happy	I was not happy You were not happy She was not happy He was not happy We were not happy They were not happy

Present	Past
Am I happy ? Are you happy ? Is she happy ? Is he happy ? Are we happy ? Are they happy ?	Was  I happy ? Were  you happy ? Was  she happy ? Was  he happy ? Were  we happy ? were they happy ?

We can put a noun, adjective, or adverb after was and were.

I was You were She was He was We were They were	A student Students	Noun
	Happy sad	Adjective
	At home At school	Adverb

We often use the following adverbs of time to talk about past evens : yesterday, last night, last Monday, last week, two days ago, in 1992.

We can put them at the front or at the end of a sentence.

Example :

• Yesterday I was at home
• They were here two days ago

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