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

Were you ready for a quiz on this topic? Well, here it is! See how well you can differentiate between the uses of "was" vs. "were" in this quiz.

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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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Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
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He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.
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Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.
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Shake off any excess flour and gently place in the heated oil.
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This last trip it had felt as if there were more cameras around Havana than Times Square.
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The women at once rose and began to shake out their draperies and relax their muscles.
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I would not trust their removal to any other hand, and so, the panel comes out without a shake.
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Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.
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The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive.
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For years his lordship was seldom seen in London, the great house in Grosvenor Square was never opened.
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