Nouns and Verbs

A noun is a person, place, or thing. A thing can be something physical or something made up such as a concept, idea, thought, etc.

E.g.: dog, brick, London, Joe, free-speech, brainstorm...


A verb relates an action or state.

E.g.: walk, is, fight, say, smell...

Many words are both nouns and verbs.

E.g.: At the fight (noun), the compeditors fight (verb).