A verb is an essential part of a sentence structure that is referred also as the action word. In this case, the action word present here is had. The nouns in this sentence are players, guards and injury rate. The subject are the guards since they are the center of the sentence. Answer is had.
They create and add suspense throughout the story, making the rising action mysterious and different so that once you hit the climax, what you thought was going to happen is completely different than what did
To understand is to perceive the intended meaning of ( words, a language or speaker).