[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to write a story that takes place in Italy and one of the characters has a persistent cough, so I was wondering, how would you translate the sentence 'Tom kept coughing' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Tom kept coughing' into Italian is 'Tom ha continuato a tossire.' This sentence effectively conveys the persistence of Tom's coughing in the story."}]