{"id":2862,"date":"2018-08-28T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:34:48","slug":"in-and-of-itself-plus-continual-vs-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/in-and-of-itself-plus-continual-vs-continuous\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>In and of Itself<\/em>, <em>Continual<\/em> vs. <em>Continuous<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter we\u2019ll review two classic topics that <em>continually <\/em>draw comments from our readers.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><em>In and of Itself<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To many people, the phrase <em>in and of itself<\/em> sounds clunky and old-fashioned. However, when used sparingly\u2014and correctly\u2014it serves a purpose.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: block; margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><em>Example:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The weather was not, in and of itself, the cause of the traffic delays.<\/em><br \/>\nvs.<br \/>\n<em>The weather was not the cause of the traffic delays.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In both sentences, we understand not to blame the weather for the traffic delays, but the first sentence tells us that the weather played some part in the traffic delays. The second sentence tells us that the weather had <u>nothing<\/u> to do with the traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><em>Continual <\/em><\/strong><strong>vs.<em> Continuous<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Continual<\/em> means repeated but with breaks in between; chronic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: block; margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><em>Example:<\/em><\/strong><em> The continual problem of our car&#8217;s not starting forced us to sell it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Continuous<\/em> means without interruption in an unbroken stream of time or space.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: block; margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><em>Example: <\/em><\/strong><em>The continuous dripping of the faucet drove me crazy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter we\u2019ll review two classic topics that continually draw comments from our readers. In and of Itself To many people, the phrase in and of itself sounds clunky and old-fashioned. However, when used sparingly\u2014and correctly\u2014it serves a purpose. Example: The weather was not, in and of itself, the cause of the traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}