How is the underlined gerund phrase used in the sentence?

after reading the whole novel, amy still couldn't remember the main character's name.

When you don’t understand a concept during the lecture, it’s to flag it in your notes and leave a blank space so you can fill in more

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Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "