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Handle の, こと, and ということ so you can read clauses that behave like nouns.
Japanese often turns a whole clause into something that acts like a noun. This allows writers to treat actions, ideas, and facts as topics, subjects, or objects. At N3, this appears frequently in explanations and opinions.
日本語を続けることが大切だ。
Continuing Japanese is important.
こと turns the whole action into a noun-like subject.
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彼が来ないのは珍しい。
It is unusual that he is not coming.
の packages the whole clause as the topic being judged.
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