Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » wireless http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Continuous delivery or continual? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/continuous-delivery-or-continual/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/continuous-delivery-or-continual/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:07:51 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/continuous-delivery-or-continual/ Which is correct?
Intravenous systems enable _________ delivery of medication, which is often more beneficial to the patient than the intermittent delivery of oral medications.
a. continuous
b. continual

Answer: a

Explanation:

Something that’s continuous is unbroken; something that is continual keeps going for some time, but is intermittent.

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