There was / There were (Past) Exercises
There was / There were grammar exercises with answers for English learners — practise affirmative, negative, and question forms in the past tense, master subject-verb agreement with singular and plural nouns, and build confidence with quantifiers like some, any, many, and a lot of. 3 exercise sets with 60 questions (A1 - A2 Level).
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There was / There were (Past) Exercises
A1 ReadingNEWStudies Link Bad Sleep to Cancer
Two American studies link bad sleep to cancer. They looked at over 18 million Americans. They were aged 18 to 50. Many h…
Mixed Practice: Quantifiers, There was vs It was & Tense Contrast
There was / There were (Past) Exercises
“There ___ some cheese in the fridge, but we ate it all.”
A2 ReadingNEWStudies Link Bad Sleep to Cancer Risk
Two big American studies say that bad sleep can raise cancer risk in young adults. The studies looked at over 18 million…
Why practice There was / There were (Past) exercises?
These online grammar exercises help you master the 'there was / there were' structure for talking about the past. Start with affirmative and negative sentences at A1 level, then move on to forming questions and giving short answers. At A2 level, you'll combine past-tense existential sentences with quantifiers, learn to distinguish 'there was' from 'it was', and contrast past and present forms.