sentences:  In French both the singular and plural pronouns in the third person are marked for grammatical gender, and the antecedent always has grammatical gender.The masculine form of "they", "ils", is always used when referring to a plural and grammatically masculine antecedent, while for plural antecedents that are grammatically feminine the feminine form "elles" of "they" is used.Likewise, in the singular the third person pronoun "il" is used to refer to grammatically masculine antecedents and "elle" is used to refer to grammatically feminine antecedents.