Read the sentence. the defender pushed which sentence ending would make the verb pushed intransitive? a. swiftly and forcefully b. his stick down c. a teammate aside d. the puck forward

Taking into consideration that an intransitive verb is that which does not need an object for the action to fall on, we can observe that only option A would be satisfactory for your question. Options B, C, and D, as a compliment to this sentence, would be object nouns. Therefore, your best answer is option A.