Question

Choose the best option to complete the conversation:
Tara: Are you ready with your speech?
Tim: Don’t know. I have ________ in my stomach.
a) squirrels
b) mosquitoes
c) butterflies
d) elephants

Answer 1

Hint: A noun is a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action. It is the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition.

Complete answer:
In the given question, we have to select the correct noun which fits into the phrase ‘____ in my stomach’.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'squirrels', refers to a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail.
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as this animal is not used in the phrase ‘____ in my stomach’.
Option (b.), ‘mosquitoes', refers to a two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as this animal is not used in the phrase ‘____ in my stomach’.
Option (c.), ‘butterflies', refers to diurnal insects typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings.
Therefore, option (c.) is correct as it is used in the phrase ‘butterflies in my stomach’.
Option (d.), ‘elephants', refers to a five-toed pachyderm.
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as this animal is not used in the phrase ‘____ in my stomach’.

Note:
In this question, the student may wonder about what the phrase ‘butterflies in my stomach’ actually means. It refers to the fluttering sensations caused by a feeling of nervous anticipation.
For example- Before the exam, I had butterflies in my stomach.