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What is the difference between CONTINUE and NEXT SENTENCE?

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What is the difference between CONTINUE and NEXT SENTENCE?

They appear to be similar, that is, the control goes to the next sentence in the paragraph. But, Next Sentence would take the control to the sentence after it finds a full stop(.). Check out by writing the following code example, one if sentence followed by 3 display statements ( sorry they appear one line here because of formatting restrictions If 1 > 0 then next sentence end if display 'line 1' display 'line 2'. display 'line 3'. ***Note-there is a dot(.) only at the end of the last 2 statements, see the effect by replacing Next Sentence with Continue ***

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