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English perfect encodes current relevance, whereas the...

English perfect encodes current relevance, whereas the progressive profiles temporariness/process; aspect choices interact with genre and stance (cf. Comrie; Biber). Pick the best option.


A

Present perfect signals present relevance; progressive profiles ongoingness/process.


B

Perfect and progressive are interchangeable in evidential reporting.


C

Progressive is prohibited with stative predicates in all varieties.


D

Present perfect always requires an explicit time adverbial.


E

Perfect is a tense with no aspectual implications.