電話のベルが鳴りつづけた。

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

bell; bel; B

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble