Re: Have Had, Had Have (Was Re: Posting limits)

> > I do it often when I say something like, "I
> would've had to've had eaten".
>
I have heard sentences exactly like this, and have
used them myself (in speech). Here in Clever, Missouri
the above sentence means (grammatically stripped for
clarity): I definitely need to
eat-at-certain-past-time IF a certain earlier event
did in fact happen. It's sort of a pluperfect
biconditional.
                                      Travis
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