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Thanks, you got it through now. So with, 'I will have to go shopping.' the speaker is referring to the future point in time at which they will have to go. With, 'I will have had to go shopping.', the speaker is referring to the future point in time when they will already have had to go (before)! So,

The speaker said they would have to go shopping. (before going shopping)

The speaker said they would have had to go shopping. (after shopping)

Also,

I have had to go shopping (this morning).

I had to go shopping (this morning).

I have ~~have~~ to go shopping.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

BulbulTadaThe speaker said they would have to go shopping.

Yes, this is 'before going shopping', but in the past. Also, we don't know if they ever went shopping because this is the future of the past (the future as it was seen at that time in the past).

BulbulTadaThe speaker said they would have had to go shopping.

You say "after shopping", but it's really "after not shopping". The 'going shopping' was conditional upon something else not mentioned here, i.e., if 'this and that' had happened, they would have had to go shopping. The implication is that 'this and that' did not happen, so most likely they did not go shopping because they didn't have to.

BulbulTadaI have had to go shopping (this morning).
I had to go shopping (this morning).
I have ~~have~~ to go shopping.

All correct, but note that you say the first one only if it is still morning. 'have had' is the present perfect tense, and you can't use that tense with a mention of time (this morning is a mention of time) unless it's current time. So if you say "I have had to go shopping this morning" in the afternoon, it's wrong because the morning is not current time when it's already afternoon. But it's still 'today', so you can say "I have had to go shopping today" in the afternoon, or in fact, any time during that same day.

CJ

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