The keywords continue, pass, and break serve distinct purposes in controlling the flow of loops and conditional statements in Python. Continue: When encountered within a loop (for or while), the continue statement skips the rest of the current iteration and proceeds to the next iteration. for i in range(10): if i % 2 == 0: continue # Skip even numbers print(i) # Prints only odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 pass: The pass statement is a null operation; it does nothing. It acts as a placeholder where a statement is syntactically required but no action needs to be performed.