わけではない - Grammar Discussion

Grammar Points
#1

English translation:
it doesn’t mean that
it is not the case

Structure:
Verb + わけではない
いAdj + わけではない
なAdj + わけではない
Noun + である + わけではない

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#2

So it says that じゃない can be used too but in polite speech would it be more common to say

じゃないです or ではないです

What about in informal speech?

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#3

I think the answer to this is “yes,” but is わけでもない more or less just a more emphatic version of わけではない? Here’s a context sentence:

(From Boundary Gate: Daughter of Kingdom, a 1997 PC-FX game)

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#4

I got the following sentence in my reviews:

A: 「また試合しあいに負まけたよ。もう我慢がまんできない！泣ないちゃいたい！」
B：「いつもうまくいくわけではない 。失敗しっぱいはつきものだ。」

and confused it with the “というわけではない” grammar point, which was marked as a wrong answer.

It seems like “という” in this sentence would at the very least be redundant, so my questions are: 1) would it also be grammatically incorrect, and 2) are these actually two separate grammar points?

Any help appreciated!

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