More and more, palliative care is available outside of the hospital in the places where you live. You, your doctor and the palliative care team can discuss outpatient palliative care or palliative care at home. Some hospitals also offer outpatient palliative care even if you have not been in the hospital.
Noun. 1. pronoun-a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase. closed-class word, function word-a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning. anaphoric pronoun-a pronoun that refers to an antecedent.
A pronoun is a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns refer to nouns that have already been mentioned or are about to be mentioned. For instance, in example 1, below, the pronoun she in the 2nd sentence refers to the noun phrase the school principal in the 1st sentence. noun phrase is a string of words, consisting of a noun plus any modifiers, that functions as a noun in a sentence. A noun phrase can act as a subject or an object. In the sentence below, ten of her friends from college is a noun phrase that acts as the object of the verb invited.