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So far, the word そうです is used to express "hearsay" sentences with I who is
implicitly defined as the listener.

  * 彼女は結婚したそうです。I heard that the woman got married.
  * あなたは合格したそうです。I heard that you passed.

# My questions:

How is the sentence below in Japanese? If I want to say, for example.

> The woman heard that I passed the test.
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How to say "The woman heard that I passed the test"?
If you did pass the test:  
~ことを聞いた  
~と聞いた

If you did not pass the test, or there was not even a test:  
~ことを聞いた*  
~と聞いた

The usage of こと reflects the presupposition of truth on passing the test from
the speaker's point of view.

*denotes unacceptability
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