The simple past tense 😬 😅 👌 🙃 🤪 😳 William Shakespeare ( to be / born)................ in April 1564 and ( to die).............. 23 April 1616. He ( to be ) .......... an English playwright, poet and actor. He( to be)............ regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He ( to be )............ often called England's national poet (he)............ extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. Emily Brontë(to be/born)............... on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. The family (to live) .................. on Market Street in England. Emily( to be )............ the second youngest of six siblings. In 1820, Emily's younger sister Anne, ( to be / born ) ................. Shortly thereafter, the family( to move ).................. eight miles away to Haworth, where Patr