Editing French grammar (section)

==Pronouns==<!-- This section is linked from [[Pronoun]] -->
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In French, [[pronouns]] can be inflected to indicate their role in a clause (subject, direct object, etc.), as well as the person, gender, and number of their referent. Not all of these inflections may be present at once; for example, the [[relative pronoun]] {{Lang|fr|que}} (that, which, whom) may have any referent, while the [[possessive pronoun]] {{Lang|fr|le mien}} ({{Lang|en|mine}}) may have any role in a clause.

As noted above, French (like English) is a non-pro-drop ("pronoun-dropping") language; therefore, pronouns feature prominently in the language. Impersonal verbs (e.g., {{Lang|fr|pleuvoir}} 'to rain') use the impersonal pronoun {{Lang|fr|il}} (analogous to English 'it').

French object pronouns are all [[clitic]]s. Some appear so consistently – especially in everyday speech — that some have commented that French could almost be considered to demonstrate [[polypersonal agreement]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bonami |first1=Olivier |last2=Boyé |first2=Gilles |title=French Pronominal Clitics and the Design of Paradigm Functional Morphology |journal=On-Line Proceedings of the Fifth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting |date=2005 |pages=291–322}}</ref>