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A. Use correct verbs to fill in the blanks.

1. We the story ‘Watermelon Island’. (are reading/is reading)

2. The fishermen said, “Mai An Tiem on an island.” (am living/is living)
3. Mai An Tiem told his wife, “The birds the unripe fruits.” (is eating/

are eating)

4. I watermelon salad now. (am making/is making)

5. You buying watermelons here. (is buying/are buying)

Subject-Verb Agreement in Past Tense
Read these sentences.

1. Mai An Tiem was a wise man.

2. The Chinese traders were full of praise for the watermelons.

The highlighted verbs was and were are forms of the to be verb in the past tense.

 We use was with singular nouns and with ‘I’. Were is used with plural nouns and ‘you’.

 We use had as the past tense form of has and have.

Example: She had a blue bicycle last year.

B. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the ‘to be’ verb in the past tense or ‘had’.

Sara loves watermelon. She in the kitchen last

evening and decided to make a watermelon smoothie. The
watermelon pieces without seeds as she had
peeled and cleaned the watermelon earlier. She took some

yoghurt from the fridge. It chilled. She wanted to add some strawberries,
too. There some in a small box. So, she took a few. Sara put everything
in the jar of a blender and turned it on. There a tall glass on the kitchen
shelf which a thick base. She poured the watermelon smoothie into it and
enjoyed drinking it slowly.

More About Verbs in the Simple Past Tense REMEMBER

Verbs in the simple past tense also indicate some past We use words like ‘yesterday’,
habits or actions completed in the past. We use the ‘last week’, ‘last month’, ‘a year
ago’, ‘sometime back’, etc., for
words used to when we refer to past habits or a routine actions in the past tense.
which we do not follow now.

Example: My grandfather used to play lawn tennis before he fell ill.

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