{"id":3088,"date":"2018-06-07T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:18:32","slug":"a-half-half-a-and-half-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/a-half-half-a-and-half-an\/","title":{"rendered":"A Half, Half A And Half An"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of these expressions are completely acceptable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Could I have half a pound of butter? \/ Could I have a half pound of butter?<\/li>\n<li>I waited for half an hour.<\/li>\n<li>The dog eats a half pound of hamburger every day. \/ The dog eats half a pound of \u2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note the expression \u2018a half bottle\u2019. This is used to refer to a half-sized bottle of wine or spirits.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid expressions like <em>a half a and a half an.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He had half an orange. \/ He had a half orange. (BUT NOT He had a half an orange.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/usage\/half.htm\">half<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these expressions are completely acceptable. Could I have half a pound of butter? \/ Could I have a half pound of butter? I waited for half an hour. The dog eats a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[652,650,651],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-a-half","tag-half","tag-half-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}