o verbo to Be no passado, Was - Were na afirmativa, negativa e interrogativa, com explicação e exemplos.
Soluções para a tarefa
Resposta:
Afirmativa:
Mary was my dentist.
The girls were at the museum.
Negativa:
Mary wasn’t (was not) my dentist.
The girls weren’t (were not) at the museum.
Interrogativa:
Was Mary my dentist?
Were the girls at the museum?
Explicação:
Was e were são as flexões do verbo to be no passado.
A flexão was é usada com os pronomes I (eu), he (ele), she (ela), it (utilizado para fazer referência a pessoas, animais, lugares e/ou objetos).
Já a flexão were é usada com os pronomes you (você), we (nós), you (vocês) e they (eles/elas).
Diferentemente do que acontece com grande parte dos verbos, para formarmos o passado do verbo to be, não aplicamos a regra do acrescento de -ed.
Isso acontece pois o verbo to be é um verbo irregular, ou seja, sua flexão é completamente diferente de sua forma original no infinitivo.
Assim como acontece com o verbo to be no presente, o significado destas formas verbais está relacionado com os verbos “ser” e “estar”. O que indicará o sentido de cada utilização será o contexto da frase.
Para formar a negativa, basta acrescentarmos not após o verbo (Mary was not my dentist).
A forma negativa também pode ser expressa através da forma contraída, onde a flexão verbal was/were é unida ao advérbio de negação not (Mary wasn’t my dentist).
Para a construção da forma interrogativa, a flexão verbal was/were deve ser posicionada antes do sujeito (Was Mary my dentist?).
Mais exemplos:
- Mary was at home last afternoon.
- You and I were tired after job.
- John was crazy about racing cars.
- Last Sunday, they were in Boston.
- He wasn’t angry with what he saw on TV.
- They weren’t sad with the results.
- She wasn’t very well when she spoke to me yesterday.
- You weren’t in the shopping mall last night.
- Was she at hospital when I called her?
- Weren’t they waiting for you in the book store?
- Was it raining in Miami last Monday?
- Were you in the bathroom when your aunt called you?