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I know "と" sometimes connects two sentences, implying consecutive actions,
reasoning or conditions. But none of these meanings fits here. My best guess
of its meaning is "I won't call you because I promised so."

But what does "と" actually imply here? What's the difference between:

```

    貴方を呼ばない約束するから
    貴方を呼ばないと約束するから
    
```
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What does "と" mean in "貴方を呼ばないと約束するから"?
と has a lot of uses.

As far as I know, と can be uses to point to:

  * a member of a complete list ( **X と Y と Z** => _noun X AND noun Y AND noun Z_ )
  * a cause of a natural consequence ( **condition A と natural consequence B** => _ALWAYS WHEN condition A THEN consequence B_ )
  * a partner also doing the action ( **person A と action Z** => _to do action Z TOGETHER WITH person A_ )
  * with certain type of adverbs (the so called **"adverbs taking the 'to' particle"** ), for example しっかり、だんだん etc.
  * a quote ( **X と [person A は] said** => _"X" said [person A_ ])

* * *

The と used here is a quotation particle:

`～と言う` => to say that ～

`～と約束する` => to promise that ～
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The first suggestion

> 貴方を呼ばない約束するから

doesn't work because you need to separate 貴方を呼ばない from 約束する. Otherwise it
looks like 呼ばない works as an adjective (?) describing 約束 (which doesn't make
much sense).

> 貴方を呼ばないと約束するから I would translate this as "(Because) I promise you that I
> won't call you".

The から implies to me that there should be a preceding (imperative) sentence
that needs explanation; e.g. 心配しないで or 呼んで.
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