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 ReadingNEWNASA Sends Roman Telescope Up
NASA is the US space team. NASA will send a new telescope to space. Its name is Roman. A rocket will carry it from Flori…
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.”
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A2 ReadingNEWNASA Sends Roman Telescope to Space
NASA (the US space team) will send a new telescope into space. Its name is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It cos…
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.