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/wɑːz/ · /wɒz/
The past tense form of 'be', used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun to say what something was like or where it was.
是／在（過去式）
過去式 waswere
核心畫面
You can think of 'was' as 'is' that has slid into the past. It is the form of 'be' you reach for when you talk about one thing — I, he, she, it, or a single person or object — and that thing's state or place belongs to a time that is already over: where it was, or what it was like.
可以想成「was」就是「is」滑進了過去。當你講的是「一個」對象——I、he、she、it 或單數的人事物——而它的…更多收起
可以想成「was」就是「is」滑進了過去。當你講的是「一個」對象——I、he、she、it 或單數的人事物——而它的狀態或所在已經是過去的事（它當時在哪裡、當時是什麼樣子），就用 was。它是 be 動詞的過去式，專門配單數主詞。原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Wasname
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A surname.
wasverb/wəz/
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Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
- There was three of them there.
- And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all maner of †bake-meats foꝛ Pharaoh,and the birds did eat them out of the baſket vpon my head.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。