No inglês há variações de número e temporais (presente, passado, futuro). Veja a tabela abaixo:
Passado | Presente | Futuro | |
Singular | There was | There is | There will be |
Plural | There were | There are | There will be |
Nas orações negativas, basta acrescentar um not a frente do verbo to be (ou do auxiliar will, no caso do futuro), podendo ser na forma contraída, conforme a tabela abaixo:
Passado | Presente | Futuro | |
Singular | There was not / There wasn´t | There is not / There isn´t / There´s not | There will not be/ There won´t be / There´ll not be |
Plural | There were not / There weren´t | there are not / There aren´t | (idem ao singular) |