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# continuation

«continuation» in Mova's school dictionary: **something that continues or carries on from something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a continuation, continuations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A continuation is something that continues or carries on from something before, like the next part of a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#m1)

2) Continuation is the act of carrying on without stopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons, writing a continuation of a story; in maths, the continuation of a pattern or sequence; in history, continuation of traditions.

### examples

- Write a continuation of the story where the dragon comes back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#x1)
- The second book is a continuation of the first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#x2)
- The next term is a continuation of this number pattern. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#x3)
- The rain was a continuation of last week's wet weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#x4)
- The festival is a continuation of an old tradition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/#x5)

### note

Countable: a continuation. Verb: continue. In maths, continuing a sequence means finding the rule and using it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «continuation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/continuation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.