Locate the gerund or gerund phrase and identify its noun function in the sentence.

I helped by preparing dinner.

1.) Gerund or gerund phrase:

2.) Noun function:

preparing dinner

object of a preposition

Explanation:

In very simple words, gerunds are nouns (that end in -ing). As nouns, they can function as subjects and objects depending on their position in the sentence.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

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