Here's an exercise to practise the positive and negative forms with 'be' To make the negative with 'be', just add 'not':
It's similar to the present simple because it has different rules for the verb 'be', which becomes 'was' or 'were': The Past Simple Tense (also called the simple past tense)Ĭlick here to download this explanation as a pdf.Ĭlick here to learn about how to USE the past simple.