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Used with verbs:
"
She resembles her mother."
(resembles, takes after, looks like)
"
She inherited her cooking skills from her mother."
(inherited)
Used with adjectives:
"
She has a surrogate mother."
(surrogate, adoptive, foster)
"
I am your birth mother."
(birth, real, biological)
"
She was a teen mother."
(teen, teenage)
"
My mother is unmarried."
(unmarried, single, unwed, widowed, divorced, elderly)
"
I was raised by a devoted mother."
(devoted, proud, doting, bad, unfit, abusive)
"
She is a first-time mother."
(first-time, new, stay-at-home, working, young)
"
I am a stay-at-home mother."
(stay-at-home, full-time)
