YOU SAID:
The car passed by the house.
INTO JAPANESE
車は家の前を通り過ぎた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The car passed in front of the house.
INTO JAPANESE
車が家の前を通り過ぎた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
A car passed in front of the house.
INTO JAPANESE
車が家の前を通り過ぎた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
A car passed in front of the house.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.