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HUBLOT Posted 11 years ago
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Continue (with) something
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- continue (with something) Are you going to continue with the project?
- continue something The FBI is continuing its investigations.
Is "continue with something" different in meaning from "continue something"? Are they interchangeable?
- continue (with something) Are you going to continue with the project?
- continue something The FBI is continuing its investigations.
Is "continue with something" different in meaning from "continue something"? Are they interchangeable?
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Sometimes they may be near enough interchangeable, but not always. One example when they are not: I continued walking for another ten minutes. "with" cannot be used here (or is at best unusual).
- Sometimes they may be near enough interchangeable, but not always.
- One example when they are not: I continued walking for another ten minutes.
- "with" cannot be used here (or is at best unusual).
- Also, "continue with" can be used in a different and less idiomatic sense, as in "The theme continued with a reading from the Bible", for example.
- In such cases "with" cannot be omitted.
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Sometimes they may be near enough interchangeable, but not always. One example when they are not:
I continued walking for another ten minutes.
"with" cannot be used here (or is at best unusual).
Also, "continue with" can be used in a different and less idiomatic sense, as in "The theme continued with a reading from the Bible", for example. In such cases "with" can
I continued walking for another ten minutes.
"with" cannot be used here (or is at best unusual).
Also, "continue with" can be used in a different and less idiomatic sense, as in "The theme continued with a reading from the Bible", for example. In such cases "with" can
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