The Problem of Pain – C. S. Lewis (1952)
The problem of wanting to be classed as a noun is to decide which noun to be classed as. A proper noun announces the person, place or thing with a capital letter, thus making them important, while common nouns simply identify the category the named things fit into.
Then there are abstract and concrete nouns. Abstract nouns concentrate of the touchy, feely stuff such as love or tiredness and don’t usually like being used in the plural. Concrete nouns are things that can be touched, heard, or seen like bookshelf, box and computer.
As if this wasn’t enough let’s have a look at count nouns, stuff that can be counted singularly or in the plural. There are also non-count nouns which are things that simply don’t make sense with a number in front of them but if there are references to lots of things they could be collective nouns.
So, what about mere adjectives?
They are describing words and give more information about the nouns. They help the imagination see what something looks like, pick things out from a group, and makes writing (and reading) more interesting. However, there is no surprise really that there’s more than one type. Comparative adjectives compare things (the boy is younger than the girl) and superlative adjectives simply state an extreme (the boy was the eldest).
Going back to the quote if a noun makes a statement and an adjective makes things interesting I think I’d prefer to be classed as an adjective.