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"All along" with "yizhi"

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Expressing "all along" with
(yzh) is not
complicated. Character for
character, it literally means
"one straight," and is similar
to saying "constantly."

Level
Is similar to

Contents

1 Structure
2 Examples
3 See also
4 Sources and further
reading
4.1 Books
4.2 Dictionaries

A2
"Since the beginning" with
"yixiang" (B2)
Comparing "buduan" and
"buting" (B2)
Comparing "yizhi" and
"yixiang" (B1)

Expressing time and date, Expressing

frequency, Describing actions,
Referring to habitual actions
Keywords
Translations always
Is used for

Structure
This structure expresses the continuation of an action or a circumstance.

Subject + + Predicate

Examples

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I am always very busy.

The air in Beijing has been

bad for a while.

She has always liked

Shanghai a lot.

I've always loved you a lot!

Will you always continue

studying Chinese?

I've always wanted to be a

teacher in China.

From 7:00 in the morning

till 10:00 in the evening, I
am continuously working.

18

Since he was 18, he has

always lived alone.

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I've always worked at this

company.

From here keep walking

straight, you will see a big
park.

To break it down, (yzh) means "straight" or "constantly. You use this word to
express that you are doing something continuously, or continuously doing something
since a certain time. This means that something occurred (or someone did an action)
and it kept occurring, so (yzh) is used to express this continuous action. Its
important to note that this point in time doesn't necessarily have to be in the past,
therefore (yzh) can be used to say something will happen continuously in the
future.

See also
"Always" with "zongshi"
"Since the beginning" with "yixiang"
Comparing "yizhi" and "yixiang"

Sources and further reading

Books
(p. 610) buy (http://www.amazon.cn/%E7%
8E%B0%E4%BB%A3%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD%E5%85%AB%E7%99%
BE%E8%AF%8D/dp/B001198GSW/ref=sr_1_1?
ie=UTF8&qid=1345693275&sr=8-1)

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Integrated Chinese: Level 2, Part 1 (pp. 308-9) buy

(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887276792/ref%3das_li_ss_tl?
ie=UTF8&tag=allset20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=088727679
Chinese Grammar - Broken down into 100 items - Basic and Intermediate Levels
( - ) (p. 123) buy
(http://www.amazon.cn/gp/product/B004WA6JSQ/ref%3das_li_ss_tl?
ie=UTF8&tag=allset23&linkCode=as2&camp=536&creative=3132&creativeASIN=B004WA6JSQ)

Dictionaries
5 (p. 1601) buy (http://www.amazon.cn/%E7%8E%
B0%E4%BB%A3%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%
B8/dp/B001B1RZCI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345693609&sr=8-1)

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