--instructions--

Listen to the audio and answer the question below.

--questions--

--text--

What does Lisa want to know?

--answers--

She wants to know where it was.

--feedback--

Lisa's question is not about the location of the problem, but about what James noticed.

She wants to know what it was.

She wants to know when it happened.

--feedback--

Lisa's question is not about time. It's about identifying the odd thing.

She wants to know why it was odd.

--feedback--

Lisa's question focuses on what the odd thing was, not about why James thought it was odd.

--video-solution--

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--explanation--

The verb to be in the Simple Past is used to describe or ask about states or characteristics in the past. The forms are was (singular) and were (plural). For example:

• Affirmative: The meeting was productive. - You had a good opinion about the meeting

• Negative: The meeting wasn't productive. - Your opinion about the meeting was that it was a waste of time.

In questions, the verb to be and the subject are inverted. For example:

• Affirmative sentence: It was a bug. - You're confirming the presence of a bug in the code.

• Question: Was it a bug? - You want to know if it was a bug. Notice was goes before it here.

In this dialogue, Lisa asks What was it? to ask James to identify what the something odd that he noticed was.

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