Question

Complete com there was e there were
______many Animals in the stories
______a huge crocodilo in the River

Answer 1

1:There were

2: There was

Answer 2

Caso não saiba, there was e there were são o passado de there is e there are, respectivamente.

Lembrando que:

(singular)

There is ⇒ Há / Existe

There was ⇒ Havia / Existia

(plural)

There are ⇒ Há / Existem

There were ⇒ Haviam / Existiam

Logo, a resolução do exercício fica:

There were many animals in the stories. (Pois animals está no plural)

There was a huge crocodile in the river. (Pois crocodile está no singular)