Dear Elinor,

Yours complements mine! Thanks!

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1) CONTINUAL (adjective)
>> suggests keeping on going or existing with brief intervals
(e.g.) Continual practice is necessary to become a champion.
(e.g.) The shortage of money is a continual worry.
(e.g.) There is a continual applause.

2) CONTINUOUS (adjective)
>> suggests happening or existing without stopping
(e.g.) The brain needs a continuous supply of food.
(e.g.) On August 28, after 3 days of continuous travel, they arrived in Edinburgh.
(e.g.) A continuous steel making process is now being developed.
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More info:-

1) CONTINUAL is chiefly restricted to what is intermittent or repeated at intervals.
(e.g.) The continual banging of the shutter in the wind gave me a headache.

2) CONTINOUS implies lack of interruption.
(e.g.) The horizon is a continuous line.

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1) CONTINUAL (usually used to describe bad or irritating ongoing of things at intervals such as --> continual hammering / these continual interruptions to our conversation)

2) CONTINUOUS (used to express non-stopping of an ongoing action such as --> three days' continous flight)

The following sentence will give you more hints on how they differ drom each other:
I couldn't pursue a CONTINUOUS train of thought because of CONTINUAL calls.
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Hello Futari,

Thank you so much for your help!


I think "continual" is the correct one.

Hello Futari,

Thank you for your explanation.


Is my choice correct?


"He was fatally injured in the accident."




Thanks.

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Based on the following info, I guess so, too.

*http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/continual.html
-> (straight to the point)

http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/vocabulary-grammar/johnny-grammar/grammar-notes/continuous-continual
-> (...is used for things that happen repeatedly; this can often be annoying or irritating ...)

http://www.grammarist.com/usage-errors/word-confusion/continual-vs-continuous/
-> (the continual action doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen regularly)

http://www.educationbug.org/a/continuous-vs-continual.html
-> (Continual is an adjective that can mean “recurring with regularity or frequency” or “steady.”)

http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/9981046523?r=9981046523
-> (1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. Not interrupted; steady: continual noise; a continual diet of vegetables.)

**http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv265.shtml
-> (When we want to describe things that happen repeatedly, continual is preferred.)

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IMHO, correct!

From Elinor again.

Worth your time. -- A.

Lost Generation......really clever and thought provoking!


A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite, backwards as forward.
Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite..

This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen...forward and backward, which it will do without prompting from you.
This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest, sponsored by AARP, was titled "u @ 50". This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant.

Take a minute and watch it.

Lost Generation

From Elinor too.

Get it here.

The following is a classic forwarded by Elinor.

Last Wednesday a passenger in a taxi heading for Salford station leaned over to ask
the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.

The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus,
drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a large plate window.

For a few moments everything was silent in the cab.
Then, the shaking driver said "Are you OK?
I'm so sorry, but you scared the daylights out of me."

The badly shaken passenger apologized to the driver and said,
"I didn't realize that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle someone so badly."

The driver replied, "No, no, I'm the one who is sorry, it's entirely my fault.
Today is my very first day driving a cab.
I've been driving a hearse for 25 years."