The document provides exercises to practice using was/were correctly. Exercise I contains 10 sentences where the learner must underline the correct form of was or were. Exercise II is a short story about a boy named Paul spending the day with his two best friends at the zoo and toy store. The learner must fill in 10 blanks in the story with words from a chart, choosing the right form of was or were. The answers to both exercises are provided at the end.

1. WAS / WERE EXERCISES
EXERCISE I
INSTRUCTIONS: Underline the correct answer was/were.
1) My brother ( was / were ) in the school yesterday.
2) Laura and Richard ( was / were ) in the park at 4:00 pm.
3) It ( was / were ) a sad day because I could not go to the toy store.
4) Her doll ( was / were ) beautiful I wanted to play with her.
5) It ( was / were ) a hot day I was thirsty and bored.
6) We ( was / were ) in the hospital last night.
7) They ( was / were ) in the zoo when I arrived.
8) Where ( was / were ) they this morning? 9) They ( was / were ) in the school.
10) Richard ( was / were ) with me yesterday.

2. EXERCISE II
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the short story “A perfect day with my friends”, then
chooses a word from the chart below and answer with the correct one.
FRIENDS
WAS
WERE
ANIMALS
HAPPY
TOY
CARS
PAUL
WERE
DOLLS
WAS
A perfect day with my friends
Hi, my name is 0) Paul. My two best 1) ____________ are Richard and Laura. We
always enjoy our free time. For example last week, we 2) ___________ in the zoo.
The zoo 3) ___________ a nice place. There were 4) ____________ such as
monkeys, elephants, pandas, etc. Pandas 5) ___________ big and sleepy.
Monkeys were sick so they were not 6) ______________. Richard, Laura and I
were excited.
Then, we were in the 7) ___________ store. In the toy store there were
8) ___________ and 9) _____________.
That was a perfect day because I 10) __________ with my two best friends.

3. ANSWERS
EXERCISE I
1. was
2. were
3. was
4. was
5. was
6. were
7. were
8. were
9. were
10. was
EXERCISE II
1. friends
2. were
3. was
4. animals
5. were
6. happy
7. toy
8. dolls
9. cars
10. was