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What is the difference between `Verb + ことが○○です` and `verb + 〇〇です`? And when
are you supposed to use one over the other?

For example I wrote

```

    映画を観ることが時間です。
    It's time to watch a movie.
    
```

But I was corrected to

> 映画を観る時間です。

But I don't really understand why. I thought `こと` is used to signify some kind
of event. In this `時間です (It's time)` and the event is `映画を観る (watch/watching a
movie)`
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grammar particle-こと
Verb + ことが○○です vs verb + 〇〇です
I usually don't like to draw analogies between Japanese and other languages,
but here it's almost a 100% fit with English.

> 映画を観る
>
> To watch a movie (dictionary form)

> 時間です。
>
> It is time.

Combine both together and you get:

> 映画を観る時間です。
>
> It is time to watch a movie.
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