Auxiliary Verbs: To be

The auxiliary verb "to be" is an important verb has many uses in English, e.g. it helps form English tenses.

The conjugation of the verb is as follows:

Present Simple Past Simple
Singular Plural Singular Plural
I am,
you are,
he is
she
it
we are
you
they
I was,
you were,
he was
she
it
we were
you
they

Negative sentences are formed by adding not, and questions by using inversion.
The verb "to be" is also used to create continuous forms of all tenses, and the passive form.

Exercise: conjugation of the verb "to be"

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Submitted by eduardo henao (not verified) on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 03:15.

I am a very old man who is traying to learn english. I live in Colombia,south america

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