Question

[Buddy]

2. Complete the text with affirmative and negative forms of there was and there were.

(Hoàn thành văn bản với các dạng khẳng định và phủ định của there was và there were.)

The first marathon

2,500 years ago  (1)................ a war between Greece and Persia and (2) ........................ a lot of battles. (3)..................... a big battle in a place called Marathon, which the Greeks won”. This was important news, but (4) ....................... any internet and (5) ........................ any telephones. So a man called Pheidippides ran to Athens with news of the battle. He ran about forty-one kilometres. (6).............. any good roads, so it was a difficult journey. When he arrived in Athens, he died.

*won = past of win, ran = past of run.

Answer 1

[Hà Quang Minh]

1. there was

2. there were

3. There was 

4. there wasn't

5. there weren't

6. There weren't

Answer 2

[Hà Quang Minh]

The first marathon

2,500 years ago  (1) there was a war between Greece and Persia and (2) there were a lot of battles. (3) There was a big battle in a place called Marathon, which the Greeks won”. This was important news, but (4) there wasn't any internet and (5) there weren't any telephones. So a man called Pheidippides ran to Athens with news of the battle. He ran about forty-one kilometres. (6) There weren't any good roads, so it was a difficult journey. When he arrived in Athens, he died.