extend friendship to strangers

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Social interaction sites also make it possible for people to extend friendship to strangers who share special interests, be it a love for golden retrievers or 17th century French tapestries.

Is it proper to interpret the above as the following? Thanks.

... to make friends with strangers ... whether it might/may be ...

Hoa Thai · Accepted Answer

AngliholicSocial interaction sites also make it possible for people to extend friendship to strangers who share special interests, be it a love for golden retrievers or 17th century French tapestries.

Is it proper to interpret the above as the following? Thanks.

... to make friends with strangers ... whether it might/may be ...You are correct with your interpretation! But I prefer the strong 'is' over 'might/may'.

Angliholic · Answer

Hoa Thai
AngliholicSocial interaction sites also make it possible for people to extend friendship to strangers who share special interests, be it a love for golden retrievers or 17th century French tapestries.

Is it proper to interpret the above as the following? Thanks.

... to make friends with strangers ... whether it might/may be ...You are correct with your interpretation! But I prefer the strong 'is' over 'might/may'.

Thanks, HT.

I still have some questions related to this thread. First, is "to extend friendship to ... " very often used in daily speech?

Second, how come the pronoun of "special interests" is "is" instead of "they?"

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