Exercise 4 - Identifying Participials Phrases I need help please please

Example: Robert Scott, commanding a British expedition to the South Pole, learned that another expedition was ahead of him.

-commanding a British expedition to the South Pole (modifies Robert Scott)

1. Hoping to be the first to reach the South Pole, Robert Scott took four men with him on his final dash to the pole in November 1911.

2. Leading Scott’s crew by sixty miles, a Norwegian expedition commanded by Roald Amundsen was moving swiftly, however.

3. Learning about Amundsen, Scott realized a race to the pole was on!

4. Plagued by bad weather and bad luck, Scott fell farther behind Amundsen.

5. Reaching the pole on January 17, 1912, the British found the Norwegians had already been there.

6. Weakened by scurvy, frostbite, and exhaustion, the five explorers set out on the 800 mile journey back to their base camp.

7. One member of the party, overcome by exhaustion and injuries, died before half the journey had been completed.

8. On March 15 another rmember, leaving the camp at night, crawled deliberately to his death in a violent blizzard.

9. Eight months later, a rescue mission, sent out to find out what had happened, found the bodies of Scott and his remaining companions.

10. Today, the ill-fated Scott expedition, acclaimed for its heroism, is more famous than the successful Amundsen expedition.