If I wanted to say "I bought the shoes in Tomoyo's shop", how would the
particles work? I know "shoes" would take the を particle. But when it comes to
"Tomoyo's shop" would I place the の particle after "Tomoyo" and the で particle
after "shop" or would I write "Tomoyo's shop" and then ので together? Or are
both ways wrong?

To clarify, "Tomoyo's shop" is not the shop's name, it's more like "I have a
friend named Tomoyo who owns a shop."
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grammar particles
How to use の particle and the で particle if I want to say “I bought the shoes in Tomoyo's shop”
these two particles are completely defferent, because の particle indicates
possession as for example わたし の 家族 は ４ 人 です: in this case kazoku that is
family belongs(の) to me(watashi). In your sentence で particle works at the end
of sentence>tomoyo-s shop で as you said. So the sentence sounds like : watashi
wa tomoyo no mise de kutsu o kaimashita that is: わたし は ともよ の 店 で くつ を 買いました。
ので particle instead is used in odrder to give a reason, explain something, as
it is the contracted form of ˜んです.doesn't matter now. I hope have been clear.
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You have two choices:

  1. 私/は/TOMOYO店/の/靴/を/買いました。

  2. 私/は/TOMOYO店/で/靴/を/買いました。

Now in either case, you need to put the particle を, which should come after
the object denoting the "what you bought" in this case. ( I'd like to call it
a particle indicating the object. ( Please do not be confused by the term
"object" )).

Though, this site is a bit simplified, this might be a help.

<http://blogs.transparent.com/japanese/the-%E3%82%92-particle/>

Now, 1's の denotes the possesion, since it will be interpreted "I bought
Tomoyo Shop's shoes".

2's で denotes the place since it will be interpreted as "I bought shoes at
Tomoyo's Shop".

Good luck.
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You are on the right track.

> ともよ **の** お店 **で** 靴を買いました。

works. The construction AのB combines two nouns A and B into one _noun phrase_
, i.e. grammatically AのB works just like a single noun.

Just note that this sounds like it's someone's shop, like you know Tomoyo (it
sounds like that in English, too). If "Tomoyo's Shop" is just the name of the
shop, you can just say

> [Tomoyo's Shop]{トモヨスショップ}で靴を買いました。

or use the shop's Japanese name.
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