Grammar
N2 connective

Knowing them 〜ことだから

Meaning

"Since it is ~ (that person), …" — a prediction based on someone's known character.

Formation

Notes

The noun is almost always a person the speaker knows, and the main clause is a guess about what they will do — きっと, 必ず, 〜でしょう, 〜に違いない. It does not take an inanimate topic.

Examples

Knowing Tanaka, he will surely turn up late.

Breakdown
Mr/Ms Tanaka knowing them surely come late

He is a serious sort, so he is bound to keep his promise.

Breakdown
serious / diligent he knowing him without fail promise will keep

Knowing my mother, she is worrying again for sure.

Breakdown
mother knowing her is worrying must be

They are only children, so please forgive them.

Breakdown
child being that they are please forgive them

Knowing him, he may well have forgotten already.

Breakdown
that person knowing them already may have forgotten

⚠️ Often confused with

Now that / given that 〜からには

"Now that ~", "given that ~" — a premise the speaker then acts on.

Precisely because 〜だけに

"Precisely because ~", "all the more so because ~".

It is precisely because 〜からこそ

"It is precisely because ~ that …" — emphatic reason.