Question

What are the verbs in this simple sentence?

A large insect wriggled under the rock and burrowed in the dirt.

Choose all answers that are correct.

A.
dirt

B.
wriggled

C.
under

D.
burrowed

Answer 1

B.
wriggled
D.
burrowed

Verbs ending in "ed"
Both B and D have "ed"

Answer 2

The two verbs here are "wriggled" and "burrowed" - the correct answers are B and D.

You can see for example also that they are in the past tense: both have the regular past -ed ending on them that only verbs can take!

dirt is a noun and under is a preposition