The past tense of "to be" is used to join a subject with a word or words that tell something about the subject that happened in the past. We often use words such as "yesterday" or phrases such as "last week" or "last year" to indicate when something happened in the past .
The verb "be" is an irregular verb. We use "was" with a singular pronoun or noun and "were" with a plural pronoun or noun. An exception to this is the pronoun "you" which always uses "were".
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I was You were He was She was It was We were You were They were |
I was a student.
The baby was tired.
She was fat.
You were sick.
It was a fast car.
We were wet.
You were friends.
The janitors were happy.