Before the age of around 5 years, typically developing children start to make sentences using different forms of the copula verb “to be” in past tense: “was” and “were”.

Many people – including lots of people learning English as a second language and people with language disorders – have difficulties using words like “was” or “were” in sentences.

This 81-page non-preparation pack is designed to provide people in this situation with focused, scaffolded practice of the form, using regular and irregular plurals.