Kata sandang distributive half digunakan untuk membicarakan keseluruhan kelompok yang dibagi dua. Half dapat digunakan sebagai distributive dalam beberapa pola yang berbeda. Pecahan lain dapat digunakan dalam pola-pola yang sama, tetapi jarang digunakan.
Half dapat digunakan dengan pengukuran yang didahului dengan artikel tidak pasti (indefinite article a atau an). Dalam penggunaan ini, half merujuk ke pengukuran.
Contoh
- I had half a cup of milk left.
- I bought half a kilo of flour.
- He ran half a mile this morning.
- I will be back in half a minute.
Half dapat digunakan dengan kata benda yang didahului dengan the, a, demonstrative, atau kata sifat kepemilikan (possessive adjective). Dalam kasus ini, arti half adalah pembagian fisik yang nyata. Kata of dapat ditambahkan setelah half tanpa perubahan arti.
Contoh
- Half the people have already left.
- Half of an apple isn't very much lunch.
- Did you use half my sugar?
- I will need half of the flour for my cake.
- I earned half of that money last summer.
- She found half these frogs in the river.
- I spent half that time on my project.
- You can take half of those books back.
- I've invited half my friends to the party.
- I've used up half of our eggs.
- You wasted half your money on that!
Half dapat digunakan dengan kata ganti jamak (plural pronoun) yang didahului dengan of.
Contoh
- Half of us are going.
- He scolded half of you but he let the rest off.
- You couldn't find half of them?
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