Fill out the blanks with ‘was’ or ‘were’.
- We were at the mall on Sunday.
- My friends were in Paris last week.
- I was ill on Monday.
- Where were you this morning?
- Was it expensive?
This exercise is designed to practice the correct use of ‘was’ and ‘were’ in past tense sentences. ‘Was’ is used with singular subjects (I, he, she, it), while ‘were’ is used with plural subjects (we, you, they) and the second person singular and plural ‘you’.