Learn English – Use of ‘supposed to’ with was

past-tense

I have an exercise in my grammar book which deals with use of 'supposed to'.

My teacher told me that 'supposed to' can not be used with was except am/is/are.

"I was supposed to meet you at 9."

Isn't above sentence grammatically correct?

I think I have heard people using 'was supposed to'. Who is grammatically correct?

Best Answer

I was supposed to meet you at 9.

Is absolutely grammatical.

I would assume the teacher indicated some specific circumstances about when to use the present or the past, and maybe for the exercise at hand, you were not supposed to(*) use the past tense. As a general rule, it makes no sense to claim the past cannot be used.

(*)see what I did there?

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