The CONTINUE in COBOL is no operation statement…

Also, it is called DO NOTHING.

The word NEXT SENTENCE is to pass control to next sentence of where sentence ends with a period.

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The SECTION.

Usually section contains multiple paras. If you call a section, it does mean that it calls all the paras within that section.

Where as para means, it calls only that para.

Now you are good to go.