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彼【かれ】の挙動【きょどう】がおかしいので警官【けいかん】がつけて行【い】った

_The policeman followed him because of his suspicious behavior._

[https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/挙動#je-18506](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/%E6%8C%99%E5%8B%95#je-18506)

...does the verb mean "went" 行【い】った or "did" 行【おこな】った?

I found a similar example sentence in wwwjdic, but without the 行った at the end:

警官【けいかん】はその男【おとこ】をつけた。

_The policeman followed him._
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Does one read 行【い】った or 行【おこな】った?
This would be 行く, not 行う. The latter is used to say something was carried
out/executed.

Here, 行く is actually part of the format of ていく. When you add いく to a て-form of
a verb, it is as if the verb is currently being acted out.

> In your example, the police were likely to begin a process of following him.
> To say, the police began to actively follow him. It conveys a sense of
> progression of some event.

The other used of a directional verb you will see is てくる, which is to say some
verb arrived at something, or that something was done, and arrived at that
state.

> 太くなってきた would be something became fat after some process, to say it arrived
> at being fat.
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