Mother likes shopping very much

Mother likes shopping very much

My mother very like going shopping to buy clothes.

Girls like shopping just as boys like sports. When his father enters the room, he pretends to be asleep

Shopping to girls is what sports to boys
When his father cam to his room, he predend to sleeping
In the first sentence "..." to… is what … to… "What is for what is the same as what is for what." in the second sentence, "pretend to doing" is also a fixed phrase, which means "pretend to do something". Some fixed phrases should be remembered, which is helpful to the problem!