Timeline for What are the rules about using 'half of' with plural nouns?
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| Apr 22, 2022 at 19:19 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Half of them is' is ungrammatical/dialect; too basic for an ELU question. | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 17:03 | comment | added | Rainald62 | @Edwin Ashworth: Obviously, I misunderstood the question. It just resonated with the question I had in mind when Google led me here. Should I ask and self-answer elsewhere? | |
| Apr 16, 2022 at 6:33 | history | edited | Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 13:21 | history | edited | Rainald62 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 12:44 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'm not sure about the relevance. OP is asking about the acceptability of 'Half of' with plural nouns. Robusto points out that using the definite article or other 'padding' ('all users', 'users surveyed') is a licensing factor. I'd add that '50% of' doesn't have the same distribution. Are you including 'Half of them' as an example? Verb agreement isn't directly asked about. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 11:50 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 11:47 | comment | added | marcellothearcane | Good answer! Could you add a screenshot of the graph too? | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 11:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 11:30 | history | answered | Rainald62 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |