Let ASB and LEADERSHIP kids to be able to leave school early than the other kids :P
It's c. Narrator tells the story
Taste kicking in articulo mortis.” Poe portrayed himself as an enemy of the Transcendentalists at least to the extent of often sneering at them. He called Emerson “over-rated” and remarked on the lack of basic logic and rationality in his philosophy.
A gerund is a verbal used as a noun. It ends in -ing.
ur gerund phrase in this sentence is " by preparing "....and it is functioning as the object of the preposition.