3.1. There was a time.../ Hubo un tiempo....
Si en la sección anterior vimos cómo describir nuestro entorno en presente usando el verbo "haber" en presente, "there is/are", ahora nos vamos a centrar cómo hablamos y describimos escenarios en el pasado. Para ello usaremos el verbo "there was/were", el verbo "haber" en pasado.
Efectivamente, si el verbo "there is/are" se compone de "there"+ "is/are" (el presente del verbo to be), el pasado del este verbo se compone de "there" + "was/were", el pasado de "to be". La formación de la negación y la interrogación son iguales en presente y en pasado. En cualquier caso creemos que esta presentación te será útil, fíjate:

Completa las siguientes frases con "was, were, wasn't, weren't"
1. There
2. Last year there
a circus in my town.
3. There
many cinemas in the town twenty years ago.
4. There
two apples in the fridge yesterday.
5. There
a supermarket in my village ten years ago. Now there are four.
6. There
many people in the cinema yesterday.I think it was too late.

1. _____________ a lamp in the room.
was there
were there
there was
there were
2. __________ a man in the garden?
there was
there were
was there
were there
3. Was there a dog in the garden? No, ____________.
there was
there wasn't
there were
there weren't
4. _________ a lot of museums in London.
there was
was there
there were
were there
5. _________ many children in the park this morning.
there were
there was
was there
were there