if miriam_______(win) the talent contest, she_______(become)a famous singer. Now she´s a big star.

Several choices:

1. wins / becomes
2. were to win / would become

I like #2 best.

Sra

Also possible are "has won" , "will become". "had won", "would have become"

If Miriam won the talent contest, she would have become a famous singer. Now, she's a big star.

To understand this grammatical structure, it is important to know about conditional sentences and verb conjugation. In this case, we have a first conditional sentence that expresses a hypothetical situation in the present or future.

To form the first conditional, we typically use the simple present tense in the "if" clause and the future tense (with "will" or "going to") in the main clause.

In this sentence, the "if" clause is "if Miriam (win) the talent contest," and the main clause is "she (become) a famous singer." The verb "win" is in the base form, while the verb "become" is in the future tense.

Now that Miriam has become a big star, we can infer that she did win the talent contest and became a famous singer.