This document provides examples of sentences using different grammatical structures about Dubai. It includes affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences using both regular and irregular verbs related to Dubai's history and development. Questions are also provided to check understanding of verb tenses and grammar points related to describing Dubai in the past.

1. DUBAI

3. EXAMPLES:
Affirmative:
Dubai was a small city fifty years ago.
They were rich and happy.
Negative:
There weren’t skyscrapers.
Dubai wasn’t a very popular and modern city.
Interrogative:
Was the king rich enough to have luxury cars?
Were they the first in having an artificial island?

4. Irregular & Regular Verbs
I didn’t get up
You didn’t eat
He, she, it didn’t drink
We didn’t write
You didn’t begin
They didn’t buy
S+Aux+N+V
They didn’t build low buildings.
You didn’t buy a house in Dubai.
You didn’t call the police Dubai.
You didn’t drop a bomb in Dubai.

5. Irregular & Regular
Did you have a house in Dubai?
Did you swim in Dubai beach?
When did they find petrol?
Did you learn information from Dubai?

6. EXERCISES
• Dubai _____(wasn’t /was) a big country in
1970.
• Did the teacher travel ___(to/do) Dubai?
• The Terminal 3(was/were)______ longest than
the terminal 1.
WASN’T
TO
WAS