Exceptions to present simple and continuons

• To Be:

To be in present continuous can be used to refer to behaviour.

Examples:

  You are silly (eres tonto).

  You are being silly (Te estás comportando de forma tonta).

• Have VS Have got:

  
  
  

  HAVE GOT

  Use: colloquial language and often in the short or abbreviated

  Note: "Have got" only used in the simple present tense. In the past, we can only use "have" (conjugation: "had").

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  -Negative: S+have+not+got+complements
  
  ?Interrogative: Have+S+got+complements+?

  
  

  HAVE

  

  -Negative: S + have/has + not + Complements
  ?Interrogative: Have/has + S + Complements + ?