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道を行ったところ meaning "just down the road"?
The translation is fine.
Grammatically, it is just Location Expression + の + A meaning A located in... They are the same as 新宿の店 (shop at Shinjuku) or そこの本 (book there). This dictionary entry lists 所在 ...
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[...]のあの[...] Meaning and valid usage
The construction isn't のあの; rather, it's テレビの前での followed by あの.
In English prepositional phrases can modify nouns as in:
"his attitude in front of the tv"
But in Japanese テレビの前で alone ...
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How to interpret「～そうになるのを、」
贅肉がはみ出して
"[Her] excess fat stuck out and"
落っこちそうになる
more literally, "became like seeming to fall off"
Your translation seems fine to me, and putting those two ideas leads to the ...
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How to interpret「～そうになるのを、」
For the form of the relative clause, see internally-headed relative clauses.
V～そう, as you probably know, means 'looks like [it will] V', 雨が降りそうだ, etc. This form is a な-adjective, and thus all the ...
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What does the last の in "おどるのはたのしいのです。" mean/do?
It's something called an explanatory-の.
What is the meaning of ～んです/～のだ/etc?
Wasabi: Explanatory のだ (んだ)
So the last の turns "It's fun to dance" into "It's that it's fun to dance"...
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Why is の placed after the object and before を here?
Other than the usage as a verb/adjective nominalizer, the particle の that follows a noun (or noun phrase) acts like a noun, just as if もの is omitted right after the particle. So here ちょうどいい大きさの can be ...
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