Solo estoy practicando

He estado tratando de acostubrarme a la gramática española. Este ha sido difícil para mí. No me rindo. Sin embargo, espero que escribiendo me ayudará. También, como se dice hold me up or past tense held me up in spanish.

If something holds you up, en español te retrasa (retrasar).

I was held up by traffic. 

Fui retrasado por el tráfico.

Structure in English and Spanish is really different, one of the things that helped me was a book you can find in bookstares called 501 Spanish Verbs. It doesn't have to be exactly that book, but what can really help you is learning the conjugation of the verbs in Spanish and paying attention to how sentences in Spanish are structured, because it's important to express complete ideas and not translate word by word.