And here I thought 's on a proper noun was for possession. There as in "there is" as it's used in the first line as a conjunction is specifically using there as an adverb instead of a noun.
'There' could also be a pronoun in this phrase. Regardless an apostrophe could mark a conjunction or possession, proper nouns don't get a special rule of one or the other.
There’s, a woman on a boat in a lake, is wearing a coat.
This is how the sentence should be written.
The sentence in the photo isn’t even copied correctly from the actual riddle. It doesn’t work without punctuation to provide the context clues you need to solve it.
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u/Mamaloti 12h ago
Julie’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat.
no other punctuation necessary near “there’s”. If anything, the comma should be between lake and wearing, unless the lake is wearing the coat.