{"id":73482,"date":"2020-03-26T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73482"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:04:28","slug":"was-and-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/was-and-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Was And Were"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forms<b>\u00a0is, am\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>are<\/b>\u00a0are used in the present\u00a0tense;\u00a0<b>was<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>were<\/b>\u00a0are used in the past tense.<\/p>\n<p><b>Was<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>were<\/b>\u00a0are used in the\u00a0past tense.<\/p>\n<p>Use\u00a0<b>was<\/b>\u00a0when the subject is a singular noun or a singular\u00a0pronoun\u00a0like\u00a0<b>I, he, she<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>it<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>I was\u00a0<\/b>waiting for his call.<\/li>\n<li><b>He was\u00a0<\/b>busy with his work.<\/li>\n<li><b>She was\u00a0<\/b>angry with her husband.<\/li>\n<li><b>It was\u00a0<\/b>raining.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>boy was<\/b>\u00a0solving the sum.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>girl was<\/b>\u00a0dancing.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>bird was<\/b>\u00a0singing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use<b>\u00a0were<\/b>\u00a0when the subject is a\u00a0plural\u00a0noun or a plural pronoun like\u00a0<b>you, we<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>they<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>You were<\/b>\u00a0sleeping then.<\/li>\n<li><b>They were<\/b>\u00a0having a lot of fun.<\/li>\n<li><b>We were<\/b>\u00a0waiting for them.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>birds were<\/b>\u00a0singing.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>boys were\u00a0<\/b>playing.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>girls were<\/b>\u00a0dancing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forms\u00a0is, am\u00a0and\u00a0are\u00a0are used in the present\u00a0tense;\u00a0was\u00a0and\u00a0were\u00a0are used in the past tense. Was\u00a0and\u00a0were\u00a0are used in the\u00a0past tense. Use\u00a0was\u00a0when the subject is a singular noun or a singular\u00a0pronoun\u00a0like\u00a0I, he, she\u00a0or\u00a0it. I was\u00a0waiting for his call.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2296,2297],"class_list":["post-73482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-was","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73483,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73482\/revisions\/73483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}