关于Half的意思和用法的提问

A: To be in public for a very long period of time at night. or to be outside of one's home for a very long period of time at night.

A: It's a saying/idiom that means the two alternatives (or two choices) are pretty much the same thing or that it doesn't matter which one you choose.

The reason is because "a dozen" means 12 things. So "half a dozen" is 6 things. Saying "six of one, half a dozen of the other" both mean "6 things", even though they sound like two different options.

A: It could literally mean 1 and a 1/2 million years in the past, or it could just be an expression to describe a long, long time ago!

A: Between "a third" and "a half", ie, between 1/3 and 1/2. No different than "10 to 20 of the students are male" (Between 10 and 20 of the students are male)

A: Also, in English you can express time with the phrase "half past." That's where her phrase comes from.

For example:
12:30 = half past 12
1:30 = half past 1

Example conversation:
John: Mary, what time is it?
Mary: It's half past 12.

A: Statement 2 and statement 4 are correct and commonly used to indicate the time 9:30.

Statement 1 and statement 3 are not commonly used and may cause confusion.

It is more common to use "half past" to indicate the time that is 30 minutes past the hour, as in statement 2 and statement 4.

The use of "half to" to indicate the time that is 30 minutes before the next hour, as in statement 1 and statement 3, is less common and may not be widely understood.

Regarding the use of "a" before "half," it's not necessary but it is often used in spoken English. For example, "It's half past nine" and "It's a half past nine" are both correct, but the former is more commonly used.

A: "The second half of Alex's name, consists of 'E' and 'X.'"
"He spent the second half of the day, working on his assignment."
"The second half of the episode was confusing."

A: I already read the first part of the book. (一番目の部分読みました）
I already read the first half of the book. (半分読みました）
"first half part"は不自然だと思います。

A: Should we take the bridge or the tunnel? Which would be faster?
I guess it's six of one, a half dozen of the other. (They would both take about the same amount of time.)

A: They are both understood to be the same thing in spoken English. Written, I would say "You are half an hour late" not "you are a half hour late. ..."

A: Both are grammatically incorrect. "I am halfway done with the manga comics."

A: The first one sounds like you have been inside one place (like a room) for about one and a half year - which does not seem right.

I would make a correction to the second one like so: I lived there for about one and a half year - which means you lived there for that long but you do not live there anymore

A: They both have the same meaning. "I haven't looked at myself in like half an hour" means you haven't looked at yourself in about half an hour. "I haven't looked at myself for half an hour" means exactly an hour. Essentially they mean the same thing.

A: "Every half-hour" should mean that something occurs once, every hour at X.30 (X being the hour). "Every half hour" would then instead mean that something occurs twice an hour, with half an hour in between each event.

These aren't necessarily written differently even if they mean different things but it might be a bit easier to keep them apart if you use "Every half an hour" when you're talking about the latter case, something happening twice an hour with half an hour between events.

Hope this helps!

A: "I’m going to take half the day off tomorrow cuz I have some paid time off that I have to use by the end of September."

If this is casual conversation, using "gonna" instead of "going to" is common - "I'm gonna take half the day off (...)".
Also - if this is happening this September, using "this month" ("end of this month") is more common and natural to say.

Nothing was grammatically incorrect; these are all just changes in sounding more natural 😊

A: The first part should be reworded, "If you spent like half the time you have spent playing games" but the second part is perfect. This statement sounds very familiar, actually.

A: I'd need the context :)
Down to* the bottom could also work.
but in Australia that could be slang or an expression I'm not aware of

A: Both are correct. However, "Half an hour" is most common in the US.

A: That sounds very natural! Maybe emphasize the “e” in “ at least”, but it sounds perfect! (:

A: I will work until six thirty
I will work until half past six
I will work until half six ( informal)

A: A: I would like you to wait for half an hour. B: OK、 half an hour doesn't hurt. ほとんど正しいけど"the"なしでもっと自然になる

A: I'm not so sure. "I can easily say half of his body has been paralyzed" as it is singular, or "half of this town has gone crazy" because "town" is singular, however if I said "half of the people in this town have gone crazy" it would have to be "have" because people is plural. When you are talking about multiple cakes it would be plural as well. "Half" is unique in that it can refer to both a plural concept or a singular concept, even though it SEEMS like a single thing as we say "ONE half".

A: I'm fairly confident that it's intended to be "have twice."

A: Half of his face was blown off. He only still has one side of his face because the other side is gone.