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2 Weonly use the with haifif we are saying which half we mean. Compare:
I've bought some chocolate. You can have half.
(NOT ... thehatf)
You can have the big half.
3. One and a halfis plural.
I've been waiting for one and a half hours. (NOT ... feur-)
150 hard and hardly
1. Hard can be an adjective or an adverb.
It's a hard job. (adjective)
This is very hard bread. (adjective)
You have to work hard. (adverb)
(NOT -Yetrhavete-worthardly-)
Hit it hard. (adverb)
2. Hardlyis an adverb. It means ‘almost no’ or ‘almost not’.
He hardly works at all. (= He does very little work.)
I've got hardly any money.
He knows hardly anything about geography.
Note that hardly, hardly any, hardly ever etc are much more common
than almost not, almost no, almost never etc.
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He hardly works at all.
151 have: introduction
We can use have in several different ways.
a auxiliary verb
Have you heard about Peter and Corinne?
