En el camino de regreso

Question

En el camino de regreso de trabajar. yo compraré una botella de agua de mineral.

On on way back from work, I will buy a bottle of mineral water. Please review and correct. Thank you all

Answer 1

Al volver de trabajo voy a comprar una botella de agua mineral. On the return from work I am going to buy a bottle of mineral water.

That would be my preferance. Ken

I like using these "perifrases" - kenwilliams, Sep 8, 2009

Al volver "del" trabajo - 00494d19, Sep 8, 2009

And I copied that from your post above and now you tell me it is wrong - kenwilliams, Sep 8, 2009

I see my mistake now, would my sentance have been alright if I had used infinative trabajar? - kenwilliams, Sep 8, 2009

Answer 2

En el camino de regreso de trabajar

This should be rephrased:

Al volver de trabajar

rest very good

Answer 3

I see nothing wrong with your grammar, but something seems lacking to me in the syntax.

Usually when one says on the way back we need to know back to where. Of course, this information may have been given in previous sentences.

More commonly, I would have writtten;

On the way back home from work...

On the way back to the hotel from work...

When I read the Spanish I translated it as you did in English, but I was asking myself on the way back to where from work? I kept looking for "home" since it is a typical sentence.