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Taka Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Keep

What exactly is the difference between "Keep on doing" and "Keep doing"?
  

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Nothing except the extra word in the middle. By stretching my imagination, I can see 'keep doing' as slightly more formal, since phrasals tend to be colloquial.

  • Nothing except the extra word in the middle.
  • By stretching my imagination, I can see 'keep doing' as slightly more formal, since phrasals tend to be colloquial.
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Nothing except the extra word in the middle. By stretching my imagination, I can see 'keep doing' as slightly more formal, since phrasals tend to be colloquial.
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Really not. Other opinions?
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I would say that "keep on doing" is ever so slightly more emphatic than "keep doing".
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There just may be a slight tendency for one form (with "on") to stress continuity of action while the other form (without "on") is used slightly more to stress repetition.

I asked her a question. She never even looked up. She just kept on reading as if I weren't there.
Every morning she went to the library and checked out more books. She just kept reading more and more books all

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