Explanation:
just so you know crucible is about mccarthyism
this politician called mccarthy started calling many people communists even if it wasn't true to help his political career. this included authors. so the author who wrote the crucible wrote about this disguised as Salem witch trial story
"He is worried because his wife reads "strange" books at night. One night he couldn't pray until she stopped reading a book. ... One other instance of foreshadowing is when Giles Corey speaks to Reverend Hale about the fact that his wife is reading strange books that, as he thinks, makes him unable to pray.Feb 15, " (asking lot dot com)
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.
The answer should be B. Hope this helps.