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Originally posted by taog
"Play would have had to have smoked weed" for it to make sense, grammatically, right?
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I think it should be "Play would have had to smoke weed". There shouldn't be the 'have smoked' part. I think it does make sense to add that there, but I think it's just as correct and more efficient to say 'Would have had to smoke weed.'
When you say 'would have had' it points out some sort of action and the tense, that is, past tense (had is past tense of 'to have'). So by adding the other 'have smoked' you're saying that it happened in the past, even though you've already said it's happened in the past. The existence of 'would have had' means you don't need to use 'have smoked'.