How to spell continue

hear itcon·tin·ue/kən'tɪnju/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To keep moving or going without stopping.

In a sentence: The train will continue to chug along the tracks.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as contine or continou.

Same family: continued, continuing, continuous, continuation, continuously. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Continue” comes from Latin *continuare*, meaning “to join together” or “to make uninterrupted.” It’s related to the word “continuous,” which describes something that goes on without stopping, like a continuous line or continuous sound.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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