Was & were (en Español)

Usos de Was & were 

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¿Cómo y cuándo usar was y were? 

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Was y were son el tiempo pasado del verbo “to be”. Ambos verbos son muy comunes en la vida diaria y necesarios al hablar de acciones pasadas. Was y were tienen el mismo significado al traducirse al español, pero cada uno tiene un uso especifico.

Was y were son usados en diferentes oraciones gramaticales, como el uso de was y were al utilizer “wish” para hablar de algo que deseamos en el presente pero que no se cumple, pero en esta ocasión nos centraremos en cómo usar was y were in tiempo pasado.

Was and were son la forma en tiempo pasado de los auxiliaries, am, is y are.

Was es usado con sustantivos singulares, mientras que were es usado con sustantivos en plural. La forma de usar was y were con los siguientes pronombres

I	was	wans’t
It	was	wans’t
He	was	wans’t
She	was	wans’t

You	were	weren’t
We	were	weren’t
They	were	weren’t

                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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Recordemos que el pronombre “you” es usado para referirnos a una persona o mas de una dependiendo de la situación (o contexto), sin importar cual sea el caso siempre usaremos “were” con el pronombre “you”. De la misma manera en la que siempre se usa “are (plural)” con el pronombre “you” sin importar si se habla en plural o singular de la misma manera se usara siempre “were”. “You was” es totalmente incorrecto. 

¿Cómo realizar oraciones en tiempo pasado usando was y were?

Como ya se mencionó anteriormente was y were son usados para hablar de acciones pasadas, así que ahora veremos la estructura para realizar oraciones con was y were

Estructure

Pronombre + was/were + complemento

Ejemplo

I was at home yesterday.

He was the boss for two years.

Recuerda que también podemos usar was y were para realizar oraciones negativas o declaraciones, utilizando la misma estructura.    

Ejemplo

I wasn’t at home yesterday.

He wasn’t the boss for two years. He was the boss only for one year.

Wasn’t y weren’t son la forma corta was not y were not. La forma completa a menudo es usada de manera formal pero ambas formas son correctas, la forma más común en una conversación es la forma corta.

For making question using was and were we only need to change their position in the sentence structure and add a question mark.

 

Estructura

Was/were + prononbre + complemento +?

 

Ejemplo

Were you at home yesterday?

Was he at the basketball team?

Ahora es momento de aprender a usar Now its time to learn how to answer questions with was and were in a short way. First of all, you need to know that there is a simple rule that we need to follow which is, “in the way someone asks you, is the way you will answer”. I’m not trying to be mean, but to clarify this look at the next example.

A: Was your brother at school las Monday?

B: Yes, he was/No, he wasn’t.

As we can see in the example above, the question starts with was so for answering the question we need to use was too. Remember to be carefully when fallowing the rule mentioned above, look at the next example:

A: Were you the manager of that company?

B: No, I wasn’t/Yes, I was.

As you can see the question starts with were, but we are not answering using were, why? Well, you need to remember that were is only for plural things (an exception occurs with the pronoun “you”) that’s why although the question starts with were we used was to answering it. The next example shows us when to answer using were.

A: Were they working with you?

B: Yes, they were/No, they weren’t.

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