English uses 'there is/are' to state that something does or does not exist. For the simple past tense of this phrase, we have:There was …. (singular) // There were … (plural).There wasn't (was not) …. (singular) // There weren't (were not) … (plural).There was an accident at the train station. There was also a lot of food there. There were a lot of people at the concert.Was there a baseball game on TV today?There weren't (were not) any parking spaces in that lot.There wasn't any sale on eggs at the grocery store.The "X" is over the "OK".The tables and chairs are standing outside.The "OK" is near the typewriter.There are TV antennas on top of the roofs.The boy is sitting on the corner of the street.The "X" is in the corner of the picture.There's a typewriter in the middle of the picture.There's an "X" on the right and a question mark on the left of the picture.