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Which is correct? Also why? For some reason the continually is throwing me off here. Thanks.

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  • Thanks. I thought this might be the case, but wasn't sure with the continually thrown in there. Sometimes I don't brain well :)
    – T. Mac
    Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 22:52
  • Adverbs can appear with ing-forms as well as infinitives. Brown/Brown's slowly painting his daughter fascinated me. // We need to steadily increase the flow-rate.
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 22:57
  • Normally I wouldn't go subsonic, much less ballistic, over a split infinitive, but I suspect that this problem wouldn't be a problem without this one.
    – Rob_Ster
    Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 23:37
  • @Rob_Ster Interesting. So, a better formulation would be: "We are continually committed to investing in ourselves."? Any other suggestions?
    – T. Mac
    Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 0:33
  • @T.Mac It isn't a split infinitive. To is a preposition here, followed by an adverb and a bare infinitive. Nothing to split. See the second answer to the question in Edwin's comment.
    – Phil Sweet
    Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 2:32

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I think that you are correct, T.Mac. It is the word "continually" that is causing both sample sentences to sound a bit off. To me, continually is used more often with negative connotations, such as, "You are continually annoying me," or "That dog barks continually."

How about "perpetually" or even a simple "always"?

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