I have been reading the novel Bad for You for the last ten days. I have read a small sentence and in the small sentence a small phrase did not sound natural to my ears. So I landed here to get some help on it.
Bad for You
I shook my head as I stared at him, confused. Krit didn’t get up at ten ever. He partied all night and slept most of the day.
“Good. There’s this place I know that has incredible pancakes, and I want some pancakes,” he said then nodded toward the stairs leading down to the parking lot. “Come on. Eat breakfast with me.”
My question is that does it (There’s this place) sound natural? I think it could be (there is a place, there is the place but there is this place does not sound natural or maybe not good) one of them. Maybe it is grammatically right or also making sense but not to me (a non-native English speaker) at the moment. Because there shows that something is away from us and this shows something is nearby us. So using there and this together not sounding right to me.