continue

If something does this, it keeps happening; if you do this, you keep doing something.

• The rain continued all night.
• They continue to support us.
• Will you continue working here?

How to use it: continue doing something (He continued reading.); continue to do something (Prices continue to rise.)

Similar words: go on, carry on

Opposites: stop, cease

Common phrases: continue working, continue to grow, continue the work, continue reading

To start doing something again after a pause.

• We will continue after lunch.
• The concert continued after a short break.
• Please continue your story from where you stopped.

How to use it: continue with something (After the break, we continued with the lesson.)

Similar words: resume, restart

Common phrases: continue after lunch, continue the meeting, continue a story