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I'm currently studying the Shinkanzen Master N3 Grammar and during one of the
exercise, I got an answer wrong which isn't such a big deal by itself, but
unless I'm translating the phrase incorrectly.... I'm pretty sure I should
have been right ?

The Shinkanzen indicates that "ところだ／です" is used to talk about "just before X
happens" while "ところを" is used to talk about "while X is happening"

Now the exercise I got wrong was :

今、出かける準備をしている( )ちょっと待ってください

I translated it as "Please wait a bit while I prepare myself to go out" which
means the proper answer would be ところを

But the answer sheet says it should be ところだから

And while I understand the から part, I don't understand why ところだ and not ところを

Can someone explain please ?

Thanks
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「ところで／へ／を／です」 How does it work ? Help with an exercise
To my understanding, ところを is usually translated as **although** or **even
though normally...**

Which means if you use ところを:

> 今、出かける準備をしている **ところを** ちょっと待ってください

It would translate to something sort of like:

  * Although I'm preparing to go out now, please wait a bit.

On the other hand, if you use だから

> 今、出かける準備をしているところ **だから** ちょっと待ってください

It would translate to:

  * I am in the process of preparing to go out now, so please wait a bit.

In that sentence **ところ** is being used slightly differently; which makes ところ
translate to "in the process of doing verb". Which means that verb+ている+ところ is
already indicating an on-going action that is in the process towards
completion. This is the "while" state you were referring to.

Using ところだから seems like it would be correct...

However, I would like to know if there is an answer key that provides an
English translation for this fill-in-the-blank sentence. Without that, I'm not
exactly sure what the end goal objective for this sentence's meaning is
supposed to be.
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