Read the excerpt below from the poem "Exile" by Julia Alvarez and answer the question that follows. She couldn’t tell, though, u
ntil . . . until we got there. But I had already swum ahead and guessed some loss much larger than I understood, more danger than the deep end of the pool. What "danger" does the speaker anticipate?
The poem "Exile" tells the story of how she and her family fled from the Dominican Republic to the United States. The passage from the poem makes a comparison to the danger in learning to swim and the danger that Julia and her family ran because they could lose their home and their sense of identity on account of immigration.
Turn the active sentence's object into the passive sentence's topic. Using the verb "to be" in the same tense as the active sentence's main verb. Using the past participle of the active sentence's main verb.
