Question

Is the following sentence missing an apostrophe? If so, where?: The gazelles biggest threat is from a lions hunger.

Answer 1

Yes. There should be an apostrophe in this sentence.

Explanation:

There should be apostrophes to indicate the Saxon Genetive form of the noun 'gazelle' and the noun 'lion'. They could be placed in 2 possible ways.

One of the possibilities is: The gazelle`color(red)('s)` biggest threat is a lion`color(red)('s)` hunger.
In this sentence both nouns are singular and are treated as a general name.

The other possibility is: The gazelle`color(red)(s')` biggest threat is a lion`color(red)(s')` hunger.
Here both nouns are plural and can be treated as the description of a specified group of animals.