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JLPT N2 Grammar

ことを

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N2 · Relation · plain form + ことを + verb

the fact that; the act of doing as an object

plain form + ことを + verb

Nominalizes the preceding clause with こと and marks it with を as the object of a following verb such as inform, forget, remember, or wish.

It needs a following transitive verb; stopping at ことを leaves the sentence incomplete.

試験に合格したことを家族に知らせた。

I told my family that I had passed the exam.

Do not mistake ことを for a sentence-ending grammar point; it is usually a nominalized object phrase.

こと packages the clause, and を hands it to the following verb.

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