Sophia’s Visions, Part 2. In Alexandria, Sophia sees the riots of 38 CE and the prefect Flaccus. A B1–B2 English lesson on the passive voice, with a gamebook.
Alexandria · the 754th year since the founding of Rome · 1 CE
Sophia’s Visions, Part 2 · The passive voice · B1–B2
Think first. When something terrible happens in a city, who is to blame: the crowd, the leaders who encourage it, or the people who do nothing?
While you read, look for sentences where we know what happened but not who did it. That is the passive voice at work.
Philo: “I did not see what she saw that day. I only saw her face. Read slowly.”
The market by the Gate of the Sun was loud with buyers and sellers, and louder still with a group of young men from the gymnasium, who had been drinking since noon.
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