<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>
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civilization and violence are not mutually exclusive. Sorry if this isn't helpful.
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