Past Simple of "be".

• We use the past simple of be to talk about the past.
• We often use these time expressions with the past simple: yesterday, last night/week/month/year, two hours/days/weeks/months/years ago, in January, in 2007:

 "They weren´t at the café yesterday."   "He wasn´t at home last night."

Affirmative:

I / She / He / It was

You / We / They were

Negative:

I / She / He / It wasn´t (was not)

You / We / They weren´t (were not)

Questions:

Was I/she/he/it?

Were you/we/they?

Short answers:

Yes, I/she/he/it was.                                            Yes, you/we/they were.

No, I/she/he/it wasn´t.                                         No, you/we/they weren´t.

You will be able to practise this tense later in another entry.