In "the black cat" the adjective "black" modifies the noun "cat".

The noun "oxen" is plural in number.

oxen这个名词是复数。

The word "person" is a countable noun.

person这个词是个可数名词。

a noun in the form of the present participle of a verb, for example travelling in the sentence I preferred travelling alone.

动名词

Meanwhile, all the optimum and potential distributing regions of Larix gmelinii, Spruce fir forest and Pinus koraiensis have the tendency of moving northwards.

同时，分布于大兴安岭的兴安落叶松、小兴安岭及东部山地的云冷杉和红松等树种的可能分布范围和最适分布范围均发生了北移。

If so, that has implications for other Nordic economies-and raises doubts about whether other European countries are wise to look northwards for a model.

如果真是这样，这就涉及到其他的北欧经济，并且增加了对其他欧洲国家向北寻求模型是否明智的质疑。

Junkers were ordered northwards to help a German merchantman which were under attack by a Norwegian destroyer.

容受命飞助正遭受挪威驱逐舰袭击德运输船。

European merchants coming northwards via the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea, particularly the Portuguese and British, traded extensively through Guangzhou.

欧洲商人，特别是葡萄牙和英国的商人跋山涉水，经过马六甲海峡、南中国海，到达广州进行贸易。

Mange is tropical fruit tree. From low latitude to high latitude northwards, affected by unfavourable climate, Mango's yield is not stable.

芒果是热带果树，由低纬度向较高纬度北移后，由于受不利气候影响，产量很不稳定。

And at the fourth watch, again he could see the colorful shadow cast by the moon through the hole, which pointed northwards at a big rock.

到四更时分，月亮透过峭壁洞孔，又将那彩色缤纷的剑影映到小石壁上。

the Indian subcontinent has beenpushing northwards intoEurasia.

印度次大陆持续向北挤压欧亚大陆

A team of Danish researchers, heading northwards on a Swedish ice-breaker, has just set sail from Norway.

一队丹麦研究人员刚刚乘着一艘瑞典破冰船从挪威向北起航。

Somali border to a depth of60km and the coast from Lamu northwards.

从拉穆海岸向北至索马里边境60公里范围。

But, in the longer term, a melting of snow and ice might allow more southerly spider species to march northwards.

不过，从长远角度看，（北极）冰雪的融化也有可能促使生活在相对靠南地区的蜘蛛向北方迁移。

They migrated northwards, at different times and due to different causes, and established themselves in what was then a relatively unexplored territory.

由于种种原因，他们屡次北迁，定居在一片当时还较为荒凉的土地上。

The boy is unable to tell them exactly where he buried his father, but claimed he followed his compass northwards.

男孩无法指出他埋葬父亲的确切位置，只表示是按照指南针的指示在北边埋葬了父亲。

Founded in the sixth century BC, Buddhism soon began expanding northwards from the foothills of the Himalayas.

佛教，创立于公元前六世纪，很快从喜马拉雅山的山麓小丘向北传播起来。

In1368, the troops of Dynasty Ming attacked the North and emperor Yuan Shun fled northwards.

至正二十八年（1368），大明军北伐，元顺帝北走上都，元朝在中原的统治宣告结束。

The results are as follows: the convergence field of wet Q-vector divergence tilts northwards with height;

结果表明：湿Q矢量散度辐合场随高度向北倾斜；

Metallogenic mechanism mainly is that the Yangtze Plate happened to large scal underthrusts northwards at twice.

成矿机制主要为扬子板块向北两次较大规模的俯冲所致。

As the glaciers retreated northwards across europe.

冰河不断往北面退并越过了欧洲。