Without ということです


I found this sentence [here](https://tangorin.com/how-to-say-in-
japanese/to%20grade), and it seems that the meaning of ということです is that of a
[marker of affirmation](https://nihongonosensei.net/?p=12799) ('it is that').

私 が 悪い 点 を 取った 理由 は、 勉強しなかった ということです

My question is: how to re-write this sentence without ということです? Is this wording
ok?

(1) 私 が 悪い 点 を 取った 理由 は、 勉強しなかった ことです

(2) 私 が 悪い 点 を 取った 理由 は、 勉強しなかった です




(2) is incomplete and doesn't sound right. (1) probably makes sense, but the
simplest and most standard way of saying this would be:

私が悪い点を取ったのは、勉強しなかったからです。The reason I got a bad grade is that I didn't study.

The underlying grammatical form here is 「〜のは〜からです」. You can see more on that
in [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6903/what-
is-%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99-and-when-is-it-used-how-does-it-
differ-
from-%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89-and-%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99),
which gives the following example:

お菓子を食べたのは、おなかがすいていたからです。The reason I ate snacks is because I was hungry.

ということです is one of those quite versatile and enigmatic phrases in Japanese that
is hard to pin down when trying to dissect the parts of a sentence. My
impression is that it's often used just due to the speaker's force of habit
without any real effect on meaning. When translating from Japanese into
English, there will often be no equivalent of it in the English
translation—i.e. it is often valid to translate the sentence as if it were not
there.

As a learner, if you are looking to be understood it's probably simplest to
stick to standard forms like 「〜のは〜からです」 for your own writing/speech, and learn
from examples like this that there are always often ways of saying the same
things in Japanese. 「ということ」 is a useful phrase to throw in here and there but
getting an instinct for when it can be used comes with time.




(2) is incomplete and doesn't sound right. (1) probably makes sense, but the
simplest and most standard way of saying this would be:

私が悪い点を取ったのは、勉強しなかったからです。The reason I got a bad grade is that I didn't study.

The underlying grammatical form here is 「〜のは〜からです」. You can see more on that
in [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6903/what-
is-%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99-and-when-is-it-used-how-does-it-
differ-
from-%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89-and-%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99),
which gives the following example:

お菓子を食べたのは、おなかがすいていたからです。The reason I ate snacks is because I was hungry.

ということです is one of those quite versatile and enigmatic phrases in Japanese that
is hard to pin down when trying to dissect the parts of a sentence. My
impression is that it's often used just due to the speaker's force of habit
without any real effect on meaning. When translating from Japanese into
English, there will often be no equivalent of it in the English
translation—i.e. it is often valid to translate the sentence as if it were not
there.

As a learner, if you are looking to be understood it's probably simplest to
stick to standard forms like 「〜のは〜からです」 for your own writing/speech, and learn
from examples like this that there are always often ways of saying the same
things in Japanese. 「ということ」 is a useful phrase to throw in here and there but
getting an instinct for when it can be used comes with time.

