In the comic strip, Calvin says: “Sometimes I think the sure...
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Ano: 2026
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Prefeitura de Guarabira - PB
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In the comic strip, Calvin says: “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it
has tried to contact us.” Focus specifically on the underlined phrase “has tried”. From a morphosyntactic and semantic perspective,
why is the Present Perfect tense used here instead of the Simple Past?