Conjugating the verb to be: How and When to Use in English
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Conjugating the verb to be
To be is the most irregular auxiliary verb. It conjugates into 5 different forms:
| Present | Past simple |
| I am | I was |
| You are | You were |
| He/She/It is | He/She/It was |
| We are | We were |
| You are | You were |
| They are | They were |
It is frequently used in its contracted forms:
I'm, you're, it's, they're, etc.
The contracted form is used more frequently after a pronoun than after a noun:
The table is blue ↔ It's blue
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