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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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There was no sugar coating it, one senior Democratic strategist said.
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Traveling through the bodily fluids of an infected person, Ebola enters through a mucous membrane or break in the skin.
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Her bones stick up from the ground, and water has sealed them with a sparkling calcite coating.
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Water has to be pushed through a semipermeable membrane that blocks the salt and other impurities from going through.
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When they are done, the casing has transformed from translucent membrane into chewy, wrinkled coat.
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To begin with, the bar was of pinkish sandstone, smoothed and covered by a coating of plastic.
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Small fragments of mucous membrane may be found, and when examined by a pathologist, may occasionally establish the diagnosis.
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One of the latest uses to which asbestos has been proposed to be applied in connection with warfare is as a coating for ironclads.
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The damage which they do to the mucous membrane favors bacterial invasion.
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It lives in the large intestine, especially the cecum, with its slender extremity embedded in the mucous membrane.
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