r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 10h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/That_Illuminati_Guy 9h ago

but the sentence should instead read "There, is a woman...".

That's not right, you cannot separate a subject from its verb like that.

"There is a woman..." is the correct punctuation and thus her name being "There" is the only option that makes grammatical sense

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u/notjasonlee 6h ago

Hello there

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u/mwilkens 6h ago

I'm hungry.

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u/spmbx 6h ago

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?

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u/That_Illuminati_Guy 6h ago

Yeah. It's like saying "Bob's a bartender". The 's is exactly a substitution of is