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"Anyone passing by might think these buildings are eyesores but it's about familiarity," says Thomas Lane, editor of Building Design magazine, which gives out the annual Carbuncle Cup to the ugliest building in the UK.
i couldn't understand about the first short sentences in paragraph above ,
would you please to explain to me :
"Anyone passing by might think these buildings are eyesores but it's about familiarity,"
1- what does it means "passing by might think"
2- another confusion to me is "but it's about familiarity" !

Deadrat · Accepted Answer

"Anyone passing by" is the subject of the sentence, the verb of which is "might think."  The sentence means that someone who just happens to be merely passing by the buildings might think them so ugly that they hurt his eyes ("eyesore"), but that people who live in the area have become fond of these buildings since they're so familiar.

Mirmohamad · Answer

Dear Deadrat.
Tanks a lot for your prompt action!
Could you please to correct my mistake in the written question above by me to improve my grammar and dialogue!
also sentence above.

Deadrat · Answer

i I couldn't understand ~~about~~ the first short sentences in paragraph above ,.
wWould you please to explain them to me. :
"Anyone passing by might think these buildings are eyesores but it's about familiarity,"
1- wWhat does it means to say "passing by might think"?
2- aAnother thing that confuses~~ion~~ to me is "but it's about familiarity." !

Thanks a lot for your prompt action!
Could you please to correct my mistakes [or any mistake] in the ~~written~~ questions I wrote ~~above by me to~~ so I can improve my grammar and dialogue.!
aAlso the sentence above.

Start your sentences with a capital letter. End them with the appropriate punctuation mark -- a period for a declaration, a question mark for a question. Save your exclamation marks for statements of real surprise or emotion.

"It's a confusion to me" isn't natural; we say "it confuses me."

"Please" is one of those words that takes a bare infinitive, one that's lost it's "to." So "please do something": not "please to do something." You just have to memorize these.

When you use the auxiliary verb "do," it takes the inflection for person, not the main verb. So you when you say "I know what it means," the third person pronoun "it" requires the final "s" on "means." But when you say "What does it mean?" the word "does" takes the "s" to indicate third person, not the word "mean."

I changed

Correct my mistakes in the question I wrote to improve my grammar.

to

Correct my mistakes in the question I wrote so I can improve my grammar.

Can you tell me why? Is there a better alternative for word placement?

Anonymous · Answer

mirmohamad1- what does it means "passing by might think"

What does it mean to say "passing by might think"? or, What does "passing by might think" mean?

CalifJim · Answer

AnonymousWhat does it mean to say "passing by might think"?

Nothing. You're parsing it wrong. It's "Anyone might think".

Anyone ... might think (that) ....
Anyone (who is passing by) might think (that) ....

CJ

Mirmohamad · Answer

Thank you very much for all time you spent to correct my mistakes and i appreciate and value your recommends.
And about your question, i would say you are right and its better use "So" instead of "To".
I think when i talk and write in English language ,one of the major wrong i commit is ,translating word by word from my native language to English language and it's caused to make a common mistakes; i suppose this is my big problem... , what about you sir?
Again and again thanks for all your helps.

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