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We don't normally use halved adjectivally - it's far more common as the past participle of the verb to halve = to reduce something to half of what it was OR to divide something into two halves.
There are a few contexts where it's used as an adjective - for example...
...but in general it's probably better to just use half (with or without the optional ...
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Having faced with unemployment does not make sense, syntactically or in meaning. You might be able to interpret "having faced" as a baroque construction for "having faced off" meaning "having confronted" but that would imply two people facing each other; one cannot face off with unemployment (an abstract noun).
Being faced with ...
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I hadn't known that
I didn't know that
The ignorance that you were supposed to work from home happened first.
The realisation when your senior told you that happened next.
You should use 1).
I hadn't known that I was supposed to work from home until my senior told me.
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You are correct - Stopped is an adjective in He is stopped, but a verb in He has stopped. It is defined as a verb or an adjective in here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stopped
Both are grammatically correct, and I think can be applied fairly interchangably, depending on the context and the point you want to get across.
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