The Three Witches<span> first appear in Act 1.1 where they agree to meet later with</span>Macbeth<span>. In 1.3, they greet </span>Macbeth<span> with a prophecy that he shall be king, and his companion, Banquo, with a prophecy that he shall generate a line of kings.</span>
<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>
The answer is tells because the other answers are not neutral.