{"id":72308,"date":"2019-09-20T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72308"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:12:10","slug":"half-half-a-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/half-half-a-a-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Half, Half A, A Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">We can use <b>half <\/b>or <b>half of<\/b> before a noun with a determiner (e.g. the, my, this, your etc.). When<b> half (of)<\/b> is followed by a plural noun, the verb is plural.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She spends <b>half (of) her time <\/b>travelling.<\/li>\n<li><b>Half (of) my friends<\/b> live abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We use <b>half of <\/b>before pronouns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Did you like the books?\u2019 \u2018I have only read<b> half of them.\u2019 <\/b> (NOT &#8212; half them.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>the half<\/h5>\n<p>We use <b>the half (of)<\/b> to talk about a particular half.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think <b>the second half of the film<\/b> is more interesting than <b>the first half. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>half a and a half<\/h5>\n<p><b> Half <\/b>usually comes before the article a\/an, but it is possible to put it after in expressions of measurement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have bought<b> half a pound <\/b>of apples. (OR I have bought <b>a half pound <\/b>of apples.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can use half or half of before a noun with a determiner (e.g. the, my, this, your etc.). When half (of) is followed by a plural noun, the verb is plural. She spends&#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-72308","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\/72308","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=72308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72309,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72308\/revisions\/72309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}