[Grammar] My mother used to cook for me before I married my wife.

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Son Ho

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Hi, everyone. Could you please check if these two sentences are grammatically correct?


  1. My mother used to cook for me before I married my wife.
  2. My mother used to have cooked for me before I married my wife.
 

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My mother used to cook for me before I got married. (Of course you married your wife. Who else?)
Don't use #2.
 

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Just say "... before I got married".
 
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