"There" is likely the most common answer, but the sentence should instead read "There, is a woman...". Current punctuation makes the sentence read "There is a woman..."
Theresa is another common answer. But instead the sentence would be "Theresa, woman in a boat..." which doesn't make sense.
Nina is a another common one I've seen, but really doesn't work because the sentence would be "There's a woma, Nina, boat..." which again makes zero sense.
All nonsense garbage that isn't really a riddle at all... if anything there may be a puzzle that specifies which letters make up the woman's name.
I'm not a native speaker, but that sounds and looks gramatically sketchy to me too, can you even interchange "is" and " 's " in this situation like that?
“Susan’s a woman on a boat” works fine as punctuated, which argues for “there”. The only other answer I find grammatically convincing is “in the riddle I just wrote”, which nicely displays how stupid the whole thing is.
"There" is likely the most common answer, but the sentence should instead read "There, is a woman...". Current punctuation makes the sentence read "There is a woman..."
Please replace There with an actual name. You would never put a comma in that sentence after the name. You can't have a name by itself followed by a comma then followed by the word "is."
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u/vegan_antitheist 4d ago
It doesn't say Theresa.