Name:
Common, Proper, Collective and Abstract Nouns
A. Read the newspaper article about cows.
Nature’s own milk factory on four hooves
A group of Grade 6 students were
shown around Queens’ Dairy Farm
yesterday where they discovered for the
first time that cows actually have fourpart stomachs.
Queens’ Dairy wants to
educate young people on
the value of cows sometimes
known as ‘nature’s own milk
factory on four hooves’ and
how their milk with its byproducts, provides the body
with the necessary daily
supply of calcium.
Daisy, the prettiest cow in
the herd was also friendly.
The Grade 6 students were
horrified to hear that cows
have a unique digestive system and
that they swallow food quickly without
chewing it well. The food goes into the
first and second stomachs – the rumen
and the reticulum. When the cow has
eaten her fill, she regurgitates a small
amount of food – cud – to chew again.
After chewing her cud
thoroughly, she swallows
it and the cud goes into
the third stomach – the
omasum. From there it
moves on to the fourth
stomach – the abomasum –
where digestion occurs.
Cows spend approximately
61⁄2 hours a day eating. A
cow’s body uses part of
the food to grow and stay
healthy. Her body uses
another part of the food
to make milk in the udder. It takes the
cow’s body about 2 days to process her
food into milk.
GRADE 6
Grade 6 Term 1 - English Home Language: Reading and viewing; Reads a newspaper article
Nouns
B. There are four main types of nouns:
Common nouns – these are nouns you can touch, smell, tast, see or hear. Highlight
all the common nouns.
Proper nouns – names of particular animals, people or places. Circle all of the proper
nouns in yellow.
Collective nouns – names of collections of people, animals, things and places.
Draw a blue box around any collective nouns in the text.
Abstract nouns – these are things you cannot touch but you
know they are there. Underline all of the abstract nouns.
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Name:
Nature’s own milk factory on four hooves
A group of Grade 6 students were
shown around Queens’ Dairy Farm
yesterday where they discovered for the
first time that cows actually have fourpart stomachs.
Queens’ Dairy wants to
educate young people on
the value of cows sometimes
known as ‘Nature’s’ own milk
factory on four hooves’ and
how their milk with its byproducts, provides the body
with the necessary daily
supply of calcium.
Daisy, the prettiest cow in
the herd was also friendly.
The Grade 6 students were
horrified to hear that cows
have a unique digestive system and
that they swallow food quickly without
chewing it well. The food goes into the
first and second stomachs – the rumen
and the reticulum. When the cow has
eaten her fill, she regurgitates a small
amount of food – cud – to chew again.
After chewing her cud
thoroughly, she swallows
it and the cud goes into
the third stomach – the
omasum. From there it
moves on to the fourth
stomach – the abomasum –
where digestion occurs.
Cows spend approximately
six and a half hours a day
eating. A cow’s body uses
part of the food to grow and
stay healthy. Her body uses
another part of the food to
make milk in the udder. It takes the
cow’s body about two days to process
her food into milk.
GRADE 6
Grade 6 Term 1 - English Home Language: Reading and viewing; Reads a newspaper article
Nouns
Note: If the noun appears more than once, only the first instance has been indicated
on this answer sheet.
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