"hadn't have been..., ...wouldn't have had to have..."

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1 "If it hadn't have been for the accident, I wouldn't have had to have reportED it in late."

2 "If it wouldn't have been for the accident, I would have been on time."

What do you think of these sentences? Do you hear these complicated sentences in your daily lives?

PS. I edited my question above and added -ed to "report" on suggestion by CalifJim. Thanks, Jim!

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

The first one seems wrong at the end. Let me change it a little. Make another post if you still have a question about that last bit of the first one, OK?

1 "If it hadn't have been for the accident, I wouldn't have had to report late for work."

2 "If it wouldn't have been for the accident, I would have been on time."

These are both used in casual conversation, though the patterns in the if-clauses are not the standard forms for the "Third Conditional". In your place I would learn to recognize them, but I would not imitate them.
To give a realistic imitation of how these are actually said, more contractions need to be shown.

If it hadn't've been for the accident, I wouldn't've had to report late for work.
If it wouldn't've been for the accident, I would've been on time.

Since this is almost entirely a spoken, not a written, pattern, less schooled natives wouldn't even know how to spell them, and might write them as If it hadn't of been ... and If it wouldn't of been ... because the sound of 've and of are the same.

The standard (spoken or written) versions are:

If it hadn't been for the accident, I wouldn't have had to report late for work
If it hadn't been for the accident, I would've been on time.

CJ

Teleostomi · Answer

Wow amazing, that you can actually hear people say such complicated sentences!

Thank you Jim!

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