Which Sentence is right ?? (Grammar)

Question

1.Winning has become more important than playing to do your best and have fun.

2. Winning has become more important than playing to do your best and having fun.

Which sentence is right ? ...

And why do you think so? ... :)

Answer 1

Winning has become more important than playing to do your best and having fun.

This is correct due to the correct tense unlike the other one and in a better word order  

Answer 2

The First Sentence is right because having is only used when you are eating something or you are expecting a baby.

I think so!!

Answer 3

THE SECOND!

BELIEVE ME BECAUSE I  BECAME AN ENGLISH TEACHER.(though im young)

Why second??

Because of the CONSISTENCY OF GRAMMAR. winning, playing, then ofcourse having. They are all in present.

Answer 4

I think the first one is correct...I don't exactly know how to explain it..but definately first one is correct

Answer 5

i think the second one is correct because at the end of the sentence playing is in present continous and so i think according to grammar we have to finish it in continous tense. idk just guessing.

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Answer 6

The first one is correct. This is because you have fun and you are not having fun when you are being told to something.

Answer 7

i think the 1st one.....the sentence isn't about a situation that's happening now or will only happen now.....it is in general...so 'Have' is more apt

Answer 8

2 because of verb constance on a side note Winning is a gerund which means its a verb filling the place of the noun hence it is not important for it to have verb consistency

Answer 9

the first sentence makes no sense.

the second sentence is the correct one because the parallelism around the conjunction "and" is maintained. in the second sentence, there are two clauses, each beginning with a gerund, like the first word of the sentence "winning." "winning" is a gerund created by taking the present participial form of the verb and treating it like a noun. thus, the words "winning" "playing" and "having" are all present participial forms of the verbs "to win" "to play" and "to have."

so break the sentence down as follows:

Winning has become more important than X and Y.

you want X and Y to have the same form, and you also want them to have the same form as the subject of the sentence - "winning" which itself is a gerund.

in the first sentence, X begins with "playing" and Y begins with "have" - two different forms of speech - a gerund and a present tense verb, first or second person (or an auxiliary verb, which doesn't fit here either).

in the second sentence, X begins with "playing" and Y begins with "having" - both gerunds (present participles of verbs acting as nouns in parallel clauses separated by "and.")

another slightly more concrete example:

Winning has become more important than playing fair and having fun.

that shows how the parallelism is maintained. there is a gerund (not a verb, but a verb tense acting as a noun) that begins each clause. any further question about this, check the sources below.

Answer 10

The second. The tenses of the two verbs should agree.

Edit: Wow, confused is actually right. His answer was there before mine, but I usually ignore caps.

Answer 11

Number two is correct. When you use and, you should be able to take each part that it's combining to make a sentence.

1. Winning has become more important than playing do your best. Winning has become more important than have fun.

2. Winning has become more important than playing do your best. Winning has become more important than having fun.

That's why it's 2.  

Answer 12

Winning has become more important than playing to do your best and have fun!!!.