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by JD1967 1458 days ago
NEXT SENTENCE (not "MOVE NEXT SENTENCE") is sort of equivalent to "continue" in modern languages.

In more "modern" COBOL's like COBOL-85, there is actually a "CONTINUE" which is essentially a no-op.

Some COBOL shops instituted a "one-period-per-paragraph" rule (on the last statement in a paragraph) to avoid some of this. And COBOL-85 (thankfully) added scope delimiters (i.e. END-IF) to help avoid the issues with periods.