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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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Nearby

It starts out rather conventional. A young man, Hitomi is placed in the cell of an asylum and remembers the image of a seashore and the tune of a lullaby. A bald prisoner tries to murder him in his cell, but our protagonist gets the better of him and escapes. He meets a female circus performer who he heard humming the lullaby tune from his memory down a street from the institution. This circus performer was about to reveal the whereabouts of the seashore location he seeks, but is stabbed by a knife in the back. He is framed for her murder and flees. On a train he sees the photo of a recently deceased heir to a fortune named Genzaburou who looks exactly like Hitomi. After Genzaburou's burial ceremony, Hitomi assumes the man's identity having the surprised family believing his death misdiagnosed. Strangely, both Hitomi and Genzaburou have a specific scar on their foot and our protagonist notices the seashore from his memory nearby where his new identity lives.

I know "nearby" is an adverb, but if we regarded "nearby" as a preposition, I'd like to know what word we could think might be omitted after "nearby."

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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The underlined sentence is okay: The protagonist notices the seashore from his memories nearby, where he lives in his new identity. "Nearby" is an adverb here. "Nearby" is an adverb or an adjective, it cannot be a preposition.

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  • The underlined sentence is okay: The protagonist notices the seashore from his memories nearby, where he lives in his new identity.
  • "Nearby" is an adverb here.
  • "Nearby" is an adverb or an adjective, it cannot be a preposition.
  • ", "nearby" is an adjective.
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The underlined sentence is okay: The protagonist notices the seashore from his memories nearby, where he lives in his new identity. "Nearby" is an adverb here.

"Nearby" is an adverb or an adjective, it cannot be a preposition. In a sentence like: "He had memories of a nearby beach.", "nearby" is an adjective.
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Thank you, No Name One Emotion: smile
Then, where does "nearby" mean to be near in my example?
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park sang joonStrangely, both Hitomi and Genzaburou have a specific scar on their foot and our protagonist notices the seashore from his memory nearby where his new identity lives.
This sounds most unnatural to me. It would just about work with '... the seashore of his memory near where his new identity lives.'
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