Atransitive verb with a direct object is in the voice.
a. active.
b. passive.
c. subjunctive

A transitive verb with a direct object is in the active voice.

Explanation:

In the active voice, the structure of a sentence is direct and simple: subject + verb + object. The subject, in this case, is the one performing the action. Study the example below:

- I saw him last Monday. --> The subject "I" performed the action of seeing the object "him".

In the passive voice, on the other hand, the subject is not the one performing the action. We can actually transform the example above into a passive-voice structure by turning the object into the subject and the subject into the passive agent:

- He was seen by me last Monday. --> The one who performed the action of seeing "him" is still "me".

As we can note, we no longer have a transitive verb followed by a direct object and we did in the active voice.

Finally. the subjuntive mood is related to what the verb expresses. In this mood, verbs do not express facts, but possibilites or wishes. It is not, thus, a limiting or exclusive factor when it comes to the use of a transitive verb and a direct object as are the voices explained above. An example in the subjunctive mood would be:

- I wish he were here. --> the verb "were" is in the subjunctive mood.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.