Ican't locate the complete gerund phrase and identify its use.

reckless driving is foolish as well as dangerous.

can anyone me find the gerund phrase and the noun use?

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Ill give 50 points and brainiest if i can. would be grateful for any on this. the industrial revolution moved the united states into a new economic era. using the resources provided respond to the following prompts as they deal with economic development in the united states. using the maps available on the web links tab, explain the economic development of the united states, especially in regard to its emergence as a major industrial power. (focus on industrial sections; cities and towns; territorial growth; agricultural, mineral, and resource regions; coal fields; slavery; value and production; and distribution of agriculture and manufacturing areas.) using the available maps, explain the economic advantages of the physical geography of the united states. explain the gains that the united states made from trade.