The bad thing about reading the "Latest" page at TTH...

[Soutern Cross]

For those who are interested,I once heard nouns being referred to as "naming words" and verbs as "describing words".Adverbs would count as
"modifying words"."There's only one kind of monster that uses bullets"-Colonel VanHeusen , from "It! The Terror From Beyond Space"

[Necratoid]

Someone involved in that Southern Cross got confused and a bit confusing.... adjectives are "describing words" so are adverbs. Its just that adverbs
are adjectives for verbs rather than nouns. Both tell you something descriptive. An adjective tells you something about a noun.

-A noun is a person, place/location, or thing/object is the common explanation. Ideas/concepts are also nouns. For instance grammar, spelling, physics, and
intelligence are all of this last category.

-Verbs are 'actions words'. Verbs do something, if a noun is doing anything, examples: running, sitting, dieing, smoking, yodeling, existing... That
something is a verb.

-Adjectives example: 'the cow is brown' or 'the brown cow ', both are cases have the adjective 'brown' telling you something about the
cow. Adjectives describe a noun(s).

-Adverb example: 'The cow is running quickly' or 'the Quickly running cow'. in both case the adverb 'quickly' is used to tell how
the verb(running) is doing something.

I think it says something unpleasant about your English teachers that they couldn't even get the concepts of what nouns and verbs are to stick with you.