What part of speech is drive in the sentence we took a long to ocean?

Let's break down the sentence and figure out the part of speech of "drive":

* We took a long drive to the ocean.

The sentence is missing a word! It should be "We took a long drive to the ocean."

Here's the breakdown:

* We: Pronoun (subject of the sentence)

* took: Verb (past tense of "take")

* a: Article (determiner)

* long: Adjective (describes the drive)

* drive: Noun (the object of the verb "took")

* to: Preposition

* the: Article (determiner)

* ocean: Noun (object of the preposition "to")

Therefore, in the sentence, "drive" is a noun.