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half - half of

used in front of noun phrases

Half or half of an amount or object is one of the two equal parts that together make up the whole amount or object.

You use half or half of in front of a noun phrase beginning with a determiner. Half is more common.

He had finished about .

She is allowed to keep .

She'd known me .

For he has lived in Tokyo.

Be careful
Don't say ‘the half of’.

In front of measurement words like metre, kilogram, or hour, you always use half, not ‘half of’.

They were nearly away.

The fault was fixed in .

They had been friends for about .

Use half of in front of pronouns. Don't use ‘half’.

The waitress brought the drink, and Ellen drank immediately.

More than half of them have gone back to their home towns.

Be careful
Don't use ‘they’ or ‘we’ after half of. Instead use them or us.

have had no education at all.

If production goes down by half, lose our jobs.

When you use half or half of in front of a singular noun or pronoun, you use a singular form of a verb after the noun or pronoun.

Half her property to him.

Half of it destroyed in a fire.

When you use half or half of in front of a plural noun or pronoun, you use a plural form of a verb after the noun or pronoun.

Half my friends children.

Half of them still married.

used as a pronoun

Half can be a pronoun.

Roughly are French and roughly half are from North America.

Half of the money is for you, is for me.

used as a noun

You can also use half as a noun to talk about a particular part of something.

The house was built in the first half of the eighteenth century.

Philip rented an apartment in of a two-storey house.

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