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Hotmale Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Shopping

Hello,

Could you please tell me if the sentence is correct?

It started raining when I was going shopping.

I have doubts about the "I was going shopping" part. Wouldn't be "... I was going to a shop" better?

Thank you
  

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The sentence is possible but is not the greatest ever written, in my opinion. You may mean "It started raining when/while I was out shopping". "going to a shop" means visiting one shop.

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  • The sentence is possible but is not the greatest ever written, in my opinion.
  • You may mean "It started raining when/while I was out shopping".
  • "going to a shop" means visiting one shop.
  • "going shopping" means doing the activity of shopping generally, often in several different shops.
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The sentence is possible but is not the greatest ever written, in my opinion. You may mean "It started raining when/while I was out shopping".

"going to a shop" means visiting one shop. "going shopping" means doing the activity of shopping generally, often in several different shops.
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HotmaleIt started raining when I was going shopping.
The grammar is OK, but it doesn't say what you mean really coherently and idiomatically. One of these may be what you want.
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It started raining (just) as I was about to go shopping.
It started raining while I was out shopping.
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