hello
I went to the shops before going to work.
I went to the shops before I went to work.
Which sentence is more correct and why 'going' is used with no 'am'?
thankyou
Lili
went or going
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Re: went or going
Both are correct, but the first - where 'going' is a gerund, the object of the preposition 'before' - is the more natural of the two.