Use of Was in Affirmative Answers About Profession

These are affirmative answers about a person’s past profession.

Formation of an affirmative answer

The formation of this sentence is the same as the affirmative answers about the state.

So, the formation of an affirmative answer is as follows:

• Yes, + subject (I/he/she/it/any singular noun) + was + other words + full stop (.)

In brief, we can answer as follows:

• Yes + subject (I/he/she/it/singular noun) + was
• Yes, he was.
• Yes, she was.

Examples:

Let’s see how to use ‘was’ in affirmative answers about the past profession with examples.

Here are some examples. The formation is as above.

Have a look-

1. Yes, he was a hawker.
   (Yes, he was.)
2. Yes, I was an MLA.
   (Yes, I was.)
3. Yes, he was a blacksmith.
   (Yes, he was.)
4. Yes, my brother was a pilot.
   (Yes, he was.)
5. Yes, he was a shopkeeper.
   (Yes, he was.)
6. Yes, her sister was a designer.
   (Yes, she was.)
7. Yes, his father was a collector.
   (Yes, he was.)
8. Yes, her brother was a watchman.
   (Yes, he was.)
9. Yes, Sahil was a taxi driver.
   (Yes, he was.)
10. Yes, she was a fiction writer.
    (Yes, she was.)
11. Yes, Sameer was an architect.
    (Yes, he was.)
12. Yes, he was a skilled potter.
    (Yes, he was.)
13. Yes, he was a bank manager.
    (Yes, he was.)
14. Yes, she was a news reporter.
    (Yes, she was.)
15. Yes, Tarak was a comic poet.
    (Yes, he was.)
16. Yes, Lara was a clerk in primary school.
    (Yes, she was.)
17. Yes, she was a foreign minister.
    (Yes, she was.)
18. Yes, Sachin was a cricket player.
    (Yes, he was.)
19. Yes, she was a doctor at a government hospital.
    (Yes, she was.)
20. Yes, my mother was an English language professor.
    (Yes, she was.)
21. Yes, my sister was a chemical engineer.
    (Yes, she was.)
22. Yes, she was a ticket checker in the railway department.
    (Yes, she was.)
23. Yes, she was an advocate at the Supreme Court.
    (Yes, she was.)
24. Yes, his uncle was a professional photographer.
    (Yes, he was.)
25. Yes, she was a motorwoman on the Mumbai local train.
    (Yes, she was.)
26. Yes, she was a nurse in medical college.
    (Yes, she was.)
27. Yes, he was an officer in the education department.
    (Yes, he was.)
28. Yes, Smita was a teacher in Aurangabad.
    (Yes, she was.)
29. Yes, she was an academic book publisher.
    (Yes, she was.)
30. Yes, he was a bookseller in Pune.
    (Yes, he was.)

 Related Lessons-

1. Use of was: state of being
2. Use of was: profession
3.                       negative sentences
4. Use of was in questions about the profession
5.                affirmative answers                                                  

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