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Note that this is not a duplicate of
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6372/difference-between-
sentence-final-%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0-and-%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%A0). I
am taking about the ものだ and ことだ that expresses exclamation and strong
feelings.

My textbook says that 〜ことだ means:

> 本当に〜だ（驚き・感動・皮肉などを表す）

and 〜ものだ means:

>   1. 〜ということを非常に強く感じる・感心する・あきれる
>
>   2. 〜という過去の習慣が懐かしい
>
>

and 〜ものがある means:

> 〜という感じがある

After reading that, I was very confused because all three of them seem to mean
roughly the same thing. For example, this JLPT question:

> 迷惑をかけてしまった人たちのことを考えると、今でも心苦しい（ ）。
>
> a ものだ b ことだ c ものがある

If we substitute the meanings, we get:

> a 迷惑をかけてしまった人たちのことを考えると、今でも心苦しいということを非常に強く感じる
>
> b 迷惑をかけてしまった人たちのことを考えると、今でも本当に心苦しい
>
> c 迷惑をかけてしまった人たちのことを考えると、今でも心苦しいという感じがある

All three sentences seem to mean the same thing! Yet the "correct" answer is
"c". Why? What are the differences between these three grammar?
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Difference between ものだ, ことだ and ものがある?
First, ことだ is a response ~~to the opponent (like "Oh, that's ... !").~~ to
things about someone else. So, it doesn't work when it comes to your own
issue.

Second, ものだ makes your raw emotion into general criteria, which reduces sense
of commitment (note that I don't mean "degree of the adjective").

In this regard, however, combination of 今でも and extremely personal adjective
like 心苦しい is more or less too intensive to use the structure above. If the
adjective was 悲しい without 今でも, then, ものだ would be fine too, aside from lack of
responsibility.

ものがある means that you partially acknowledge your emotion, and it works in this
example.
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