(Sorry for bothering you again with the Perfect Tense, I hope it ends soon.) I took a quiz and a grammar website said that I made a mistake.
Right sentence:
When I showed up to take a look around, there were at least twenty other people who had arrived before me.
My sentence:
When I showed up to take a look around, there were at least twenty other people who arrived before me.
In the second clause I used just arrived
because I thought that the word before
does all the job. Is it a real mistake? What sentence does sound better? Does “before” make the Perfect Tense redundant?