I Have A Cold

I pretty much stayed at home all day today because I have a cold; I only just went out for a while to visit the public library. I returned a book that I had checked out last week and then, I checked out another one. I would have liked to have gone to the swimming pool for a swim, but because I didn’t want my cold to worsen, I finally decided that I was just going to go back and stay at home. So, going to the public library, and eating and watching TV, were the only things I did today.

Hi David. Good job! I know that they do not exist in the same way in Spanish, but in English, you need to pay attention to the tense of your verbs and the effect they have on the rest of the sentence. Also, good writing shows clarity and a degree of “logic” to it in that everything should be explained on the paper, for the reader to see, rather than exist only in your mind [i.e. while understood from the title, the text,, and perhaps more so in speech, it is better to put “today” in your initial sentence, otherwise, it could have been “last week” or “last month” or “last year!”] Although dated, and somewhat discredited, Kipling’s “5W’s” will allow you to compose better sentences. Keep writing and keep posting. I hope that this helps you. J.

I have a cold.

I have a cold.

I caught a cold.

I stayed at home all day because I caught a cold. I just went out to go to the public library. I left a book what I checked out last week and I checked out other again.

I would like to swim in the swimming pool, but finally I´m going to stay at home.

I wouldn´t like to worsen.
So, i am going to visit the public library, eat and watch tv. It is the only thing I´ll do Today.

!!i hope, i am right and   my explanation is understandable, because i am a "student" too))