• Look at these questions.

What do they have in

common?

• Was she happy? No, she wasn’t

• Was he sad? No, he wasn’t
• Was the dog hungry? Yes, the dog was
• Were they in the house? Yes, they were
• Were you prepared for the test? No, we weren’t
• Were we dancing? Yes, we were
• To make questions with to be you have to PUT:
• FIRST: was or were… you use:
I YOU
HE WAS WE WERE
SHE THEY
IT

Was she sick? Were we happy?

• SECOND: the person, animal or thing…. or the
pronoun

Was the dog hungry?

Were they in the house?

• THIRD: what you want to know about that
person, animal or thing.

• FOURTH: the interrogation mark ? (don’t

forget it!)

• Were they in the house?

• Was the dog hungry?
• To answer the questions you only have to:

• Say Yes or No
• Put a coma
• The person, animal, thing or pronoun
• Was o Wasn’t
• Yes, I WAS
• SHE
• HE EXAMPLE
• IT Was the dog hungry? Yes, the dog was

• Yes, WE WERE EXAMPLE

• YOU Were they in the house? Yes, they were
• THEY
• No, I WASN’T
• SHE
• HE EXAMPLE
• IT Was the dog hungry? Yes, the dog wasn’t

• No, WE WEREN’T
• YOU
• THEY
EXAMPLE
• Were they in the house? Yes, they weren’t
 Ordinal Numbers
When objects are placed in
order, we use ordinal
numbers to tell their
position. Ordinal numbers
are similar to the numbers
that you learned before (they
are called Cardinal
numbers). If ten students ran
a race, we would say that the
student that ran the fastest
was in first place, the next
student was in second place,
and so on.