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was notwere notwasn'tweren'tIn order to form a negative question, the verb is placed before the subject, and theword not is placed after the subject. However, when contractions are used, thecontracted form of not immediately follows the verb. For example:Without ContractionsWas I not awake?Were they not ready?With ContractionsWasn't I awake?Weren't they ready?In order to form tag questions, the verb itself is used. In the following examples, thenegative tag questions are underlined. Contractions are usually used in negative tagquestions.Affi rmative StatementI was awake.They were ready.Affi rmative Statement with Tag Qu estionI was awake, wasn't I?They were ready, weren't they?See Exercise 2.b. Other verbsEnglish verbs other than the verb to be have the same form in the Simple Past,regardless of the subject.In the case of regular English verbs, the Simple Past has the same form as the pastparticiple. For example, the Simple Past of the regular verb to work is conjugated asfollows:See Exercise 3.I workedyou workedhe workedshe workedit workedwe workedthey workedIn the case of irregular English verbs, the form of the Simple Past must be memorized.As illustrated by the examples below, for some irregular verbs, the Simple Past is thesame as the past participle; whereas for others, the Simple Past differs from the pastparticiple. A table of 140 common English irregular verbs is provided. For example:Bare InfinitivebeginfindgoSimple PastbeganfoundwentPast Participlebegunfoundgone