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I have survived and become a winner?
I have survived and became a winner?
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Answers:
Both are correct. I will write in [brackets] the words that you have implicitly omitted. This is a matter of understanding by the reader, and the style of the writer.
The first several answerers PRESUME that you want to use the compound verb forms, and have interpreted the first version as
I have survived and [I have] become a winner,
which is correct.
BUT this is also correct:
I have survived and [I] became a winner.
English is very flexible in some circumstances. Once in a while you may play with your prose so as to be ambiguous in your meaning! Or you may play with your poetry so as to manipulate your "meter". (One reason I love my native language.)
the first one.
First version. The "I have" carries across the "and", making it "I have become".
become
I have survived and become a winner
become
Have and become go together (I forget the technical nicety); had and became go together.
So if you choose have, you also have to choose become for it to make grammatical sense.
I have survived and become a winner.
If you think the second one sounds right, try to take out the first verb (survived) and read the sentence as: I have became a winner. Obviously, that sounds weird, so you can narrow it down. This trick usually helps me during my tests!
The first is correct because it is part of a compound verb phrase that includes have, so "have survived" and "have become" are the proper parings.
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