Keep watch

#1 and #3 are not possible.

"kept watch" is possible, but it does not mean the same as "kept watching". Note that "watch" is a noun there.

Thanks a lot, GPY!!

It's still a little vauge...
How about sentences like this?
Doesn't this make a good sentence?
"keep attck" can mean something here?

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He tried to worship idols and to keep attack.

pructusHe tried to worship idols and to keep attack.

It doesn't make any sense.

pructusDoes Do the sentences below mean like this have these meanings?

No. "keep", if it takes a verb, always takes a verb in the -ing form.

They kept attacking. I keep saying that we're the best. These are the only correct forms.

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Thanks a lot, CJ!!

How about this passage?
Maybe wrong use of English?

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So do your childish terrors melt away, and dreams become a sign that you have made a new beginning, not another try to worship idols, and to keep attack.

You cannot, in any context, 'keep attack'.

Thanks a lot, fivejedjon!!

Maybe the writer employed some kind of analogy from "keep watch"?
In that case, the meaning of keep attack would be to have attacking intention in mind and always find reason to attack?

You cannot, in any context, 'keep attack'. (Where have I seen that before?)

I suppose it's possible to keep attack in mind', but that is not just 'keep attack' That is not possible. You can't say it. It doesn't work. No. Never.

I see... I see...
Thanks so much, fivejedjon!!

pructusMaybe the writer employed some kind of analogy from "keep watch"?In that case, the meaning of keep attack would be to have attacking intention in mind and always find reason to attack?

I found the source of the quote on Google Books. The book in question is utter drivel, but it does seem to be written in largely correct English. Glancing through instanc