Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - In their past for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Underline the verbs in the sentence below. Are the verbs in the present or the past? Are they singular or plural?
  2. Complete the table below.
  3. Change the sentences below. Make a) negative and b) a question. Then complete the rules.

Answer

a)

The verbs are were and was. They are in the past. Was is singular and were is plural.

b)

  • was
  • were

c)

  1. Yeoh's first films weren't American.
  2. Was Lionel Messi a good student?

Rules

  • not
  • was / were