Is the following sentence missing an apostrophe? If so, where?: The gazelles biggest threat is from a lions hunger.
1 Answer
Mar 21, 2016
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
In this sentence both nouns are singular and are treated as a general name.
The other possibility is: The gazelle
Here both nouns are plural and can be treated as the description of a specified group of animals.