Conjugating To Be Verbs, Past and Present

To Be

The state of being verbs

Multiple Choice

I ___ busy. (present)

• was

• is

• am

• are

Multiple Choice

I ___ busy. (past)

• am

• are

• was

• is

Multiple Choice

He ___ a good swimmer. (present)

• are

• was

• am

• is

Multiple Choice

He ___ a bad swimmer. (past)

• is

• were

• was

• am

Multiple Choice

They ___ good friends. (present)

• were

• are

• am

• is

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They ___ good friends. (past)

• are

• were

• is

• was

Multiple Choice

They ___ good friends. (future)

• are

• been

• will is

• will be

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​To Be

Be is an action word. When you use be after a person or thing, you have to change be to am, are, or is.

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I am You are He is She is It is We are They are

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You See You Write

I ___ kind. I am kind.

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​To Be in the Past

​To talk about being in the past, you have to change the action word.

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Change am and is to was. Change are to were.

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I am at school earlier. -> I was at school earlier.

​She is at school earlier. -> She was at school earlier.

​We are at school earlier. -> We were at school earlier.

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