infinity wrote:

He has a great personality and been the most popular kid in my class.

A very awkward example of zeugma: 'have' here acts both as a main verb (has great personality) and an auxiliary (has been).

So no, it doesn't really work!

MrP

Hello Infinity(?)

At that time I was rather against "is around and going to ~". But now I'm inclined to think that it is OK. It is believed to be a rule that "and" connects two syntactic units of same sort. But this rule does not prohibit the use of a phrase like "is around and going to ~". Perhaps we can say even a sentence like "She is a Japanese student and going to marry an American guy next spring. The question is what the "units of same sort" means exactly. It is unlikely "units of the same sorts" necessarily means "words that belong to the same part of speech". Frankly, I myself am still troubled with this issue.

paco

Hello Infinity

The answer is definitely "No".　But I think what you want to know is not that kind of answer. I guess you are seeking any rules about coordinate conjunction using "and". I myself, by surveying books and online sites, have looked for any articles describing such rules. But it has been rather a vain effort until right now. It is likely the question you are raising still remains to want further studies. There must be some constraints on the "and" coordination. However, the constraints may be too complicated to be understood in a simple way. For example, we can say "John and Bill broke the window", but it is said "John and the hammer broke the window" sounds weird to most native speakers. Perhaps we can say "She was a young Japanese and attending an English school". But I'm not sure whether we can change it into "She was attending an English school and a young Japanese".

paco