日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 3

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Japanese Ask Questions Thread2
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>>724

Thank you for so thorough an answer, if I may, I'd like to ask two more. Can you help me understand the circumstances in which one might choose to use past progressive over the plain past? And two, you used the form 「noun」になる in the construction "結果は「I forgot my/the handbag」になります。" I run into this build all the time and for my money になる resembles the copula here. Why is this and when do you use it? Another example might be 「あの人は私のいとこになります。」 "He, she, that person IS my cousin" What's wrong with good ol' です?

Thanks a lot