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Tkacka15 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
They’d have to have said
"Although I suppose they’d have to have said at least one hateful thing to justify the presumption that they were hate preachers." (David Mitchell in The Guardian.)
Does the "they'd have to have said" mean "they would have had to say" in the above sentence?
Does the "they'd have to have said" mean "they would have had to say" in the above sentence?
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That's the meaning. It's just a difference in the use of tenses.
- That's the meaning.
- It's just a difference in the use of tenses.
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