present tenses

[twakkll33]

Hello,

Which is the best answer in the following sentence please because I think it allows for different interpretations :

-She (won/has won) the competition and now she (spends/is spending) alot of money on clothes.

[Casiopea]

Use the simple present tense to express a routine, like this,

[1] She wins the competition every year, and afterwards she always spends a lot of money on clothes.

Use the simple past tense to talk about the past:

[2] She won the competition.

Use the progessive to talk about "now", these days, at the moment, etc,

[3] Now she is spending a lot of money on clothes.

Use the present perfect when you want to connect an event with a previous event in time,

[4] [After years of trying] she has [finally] won the competition, and now she will be able to spend a lot of money on clothes.

Use the presen perfect to express "quite recently" or "just now". The following structures are ungrammatical:

[5] She has [just now] won the competition, and now she is spending a lot of money on clothes.

=> She is doing two things at once: (1) winning the competition and (2) spending money on clothes.

[5] She has [just now] won the competition, and now she spends a lot of money on clothes.

=> She just won the competition so there hasn't yet been enough time for spend money to become a routine.

Spelling Note, a lot is two words, not one. You can fit a whole 'nother word in there: a whole lot.