Sentence Construction - The flow of my sentence

Question

If I say for example:

I took a shower, got dressed and had lunch at 1:00 pm

You guys will think I did these things at all the same time? How can I improve my sentence, so it won't be misunderstood ? What I want to say is:

First, I took a shower, then I got dressed and after it I Had lunch at 1:00 pm

So: Take a shower - 1st event 2- Get dressed - 2ns event 3- Have lunch at 1:00 pm - 3rd action

Should I use past perfect? But how? Feel free to provide me some examples

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with your initial sentence, though personally I'd add the Oxford comma:

I took a shower, got dressed, and had lunch at 1:00 pm.

As a native English speaker, I'd interpret this as placing 1 pm only with the last action:

• I took a shower before 1 pm.
• Then I got dressed, also before 1 pm.
• Then I had lunch at 1 pm.

If you did want to say that you (somehow) did all these things at 1pm, you'd move the 1 pm:

At 1:00 pm I took a shower, got dressed, and had lunch.

You could also say:

I took a shower at 1:00 pm, and then got dressed and had lunch.