Nouns are words that name people, places, things, ideas, or states of being. For example:

People: teacher, doctor, friend, student, mother, father
Places: school, home, park, city, country, mountain
Things: book, computer, car, house, table, chair
Ideas: love, happiness, sadness, freedom, justice
States of being: life, death, sleep, wakefulness, peace, war
Verbs are words that describe actions, states, or relations between things. For example:

Actions: run, jump, sing, dance, eat, sleep
States: be, exist, happen, occur, seem, become
Relations: have, belong to, include, connect, join