Marika33
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- Netherlands
I caught this sentence, and I can't really understand why he used the past continuous, "... like my mother was (cooking meals, raising the kinds, reading books to them)". Were I him, I'd've said "... like my mother did (cooked meals, raised the kinds, read books to them)". Why? He isn't talking about a specific point in the past, he's talking about his childhood in general, what his mother did when he was a child.
![... like my mother was=did.png ... like my mother was=did.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/4/4770-92efb71495522a9abe263aa82e2e894d.jpg)
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![... like my mother was=did.png ... like my mother was=did.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/4/4770-92efb71495522a9abe263aa82e2e894d.jpg)
(Source at 30:00)