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:

 

 

 

 

 

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Completa las siguientes frases con "was, were, wasn't, weren't"

1. There a flower shop here in 2000.
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.

  
Pregunta de Elección Múltiple

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