Someone has been sleeping in my bed

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"Someone has been sleeping in my bed, too" said the Mama bear.

I read this in the "The Story of Goldilock and the Three Bears".
The Golidlock is not in the bedroom anymore, why is the verb is in present continuous tense?
 

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It is not the present continuous tense. The present continuous tense here would be "Someone is sleeping ...".

And it's not "Goldilock" it's "Goldilocks".
 
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It is not the present continuous tense. The present continuous tense here would be "Someone is sleeping ...".

And it's not "Goldilock" it's "Goldilocks".

I said 'present perfect continuous'.
 

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But the OP didn't. probus was correcting the OP, not you.
 
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