Importantly, its core personalities (like Harold John Ockenga and Billy Graham), institutions (for instance, Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College), and organizations (such as the National Association of Evangelicals and Youth for Christ) have played a pivotal role in giving the wider movement a sense of cohesion that extends beyond these "card-carrying" evangelicals.
Is 'giving' a noun?
Is 'the wider movement' a noun phrase?
Is 'a sense of cohesion' a noun phrase?
Does 'giving' modify 'the wider movement' which turned to modify 'a sense of cohesion'?
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Is 'giving' a noun? -- Not precisely; it is the nonfinite clause which is a noun object of the preposition in. Is 'the wider movement' a noun phrase?
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