Question

Read the sentence and select the type of noun or pronoun that corresponds with the bolded word.

The children amused themselves by playing VIDEO GAMES.

Answer 1

A Noun Is a Person, Place or thing. (Adults, Building, Phone.)
A pronoun is Descirbing a noun. ( She, He, it)

In the Sentence "The children amused themselves by playing video games."
Children is a noun.
Themselves descirbes the children as a pronoun.

Answer 2

compound noun... figured it out the hard way