<span>The soldiers pushed long and hard. This ending to the sentence makes the word pushed and intransitive verb. Intransitive verbs are action verbs that express doable activities like the word push. Second thing is that a transitive verb does not have direct object receiving the said action. </span>
They didn't have the knowledge which the English had which made them easier to take over since they didn't have to knowledge to take back what the English people had with made Johnson undertake his work