The simplest deverbal noun derivation is conversion from a verb stem.

The expression is typically used in an adverbial phrase following some form of the word "go", but it is also used as a simple noun.

There are few simple nouns.

It was a simple noun preceded by a definite article.

He used, not the term of respect, but the simple female noun.

However, three-syllable simple nouns are different.

It contains simple nouns and verbs with unequivocal meanings, like tree and hit.

Seven hundred of them, including those formed with prefixes, of which fifty (or considerably more than half) have ge-, are simple nouns.

The narrator uses simple nouns in place of more precise terms, thus suggesting the limited lexicon of his characters.

The story that Adam Payne has found among those simple nouns is one that grows in complexity with each rereading.