Editing Pro-drop language (section)

====Spanish====
In Spanish, the verb is inflected for both person and number, thus expression of the pronoun is unnecessary because it is grammatically redundant.<ref name=":0" /> In the following example, the inflection on the verb ''ver,'' 'see', signals informal 2nd person singular, thus the pronoun is dropped. Similarly, from both the context and verbal morphology, the listener can infer that the second two utterances are referring to the log, so the speaker omits the pronoun that would appear in English as "it." 
 
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|¿Ves este tronco? Sería bueno para la fogata. Está completamente seco.
|See this log? {Would be} good for the campfire. Is completely dry
|(Do) ('''you''') see this log? ('''It''') would be good for the campfire. ('''It''') is completely dry.}}

Although Spanish is a predominantly pro-drop language, not all grammatical contexts allow for a null pronoun. There are some environments that require an overt pronoun. In contrast, there are also grammatical environments that require a null pronoun. According to the ''Real Academia Española'', the expression or elision of the subject pronoun is not random. Rather there are contexts in which an overt pronoun is abnormal, but in other cases, the overt pronoun is possible or even required.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://buscon.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?id=seEVswKc5D6y2K5WFZ|title=Pronombre Personales Tónicos|date=2005|website=Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas|publisher=Real Academia Española}}</ref> Further, the examples below illustrate how overt pronouns in Spanish are not constrained by inflectional morphology. The pronoun ''nosotros'' can be either present or absent, depending on certain discourse conditions:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Camacho|first=Jose A.|url=http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ref/id/CBO9781139524407|title=Null Subjects|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-52440-7|location=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/cbo9781139524407}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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|Salimos
|left
|“We left.”}}

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|Nosotros salimos.
|We       left
|“We left.”}}

The third person pronouns (''él, ella, ellos'', ''ellas'') in most contexts can only refer to persons. Therefore, when referring to things (that are not people) an explicit pronoun is usually disallowed.<ref name=":1" />

Subject pronouns can be made explicit when used for a contrastive function or when the subject is the focus of the sentence. In the following example, the first person explicit pronoun is used to emphasize the subject. In the next sentence the explicit ''yo'', stressed that the opinion is from the speaker and not from the second person or another person.

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|Yo creo que eso estuvo mal.
|I think that that was wrong.
|}}
  
Subject pronouns can also be made explicit in order to clarify ambiguities that arise due to verb forms that are homophonous in the first person and third person. For example, in the past imperfect, conditional, and subjunctive, the verb forms are the same for first person singular and third person singular. In these situations, using the explicit pronoun ''yo'' (1st person singular) or ''él, ella'' (3rd person singular) clarifies who the subject is, since the verbal morphology is ambiguous.<ref name=":1" />