"You folks will be helped." Only third persons can be agents in the passive. Other relations (e.g. the forms "*I am seen by you" or "*he is seen by me") can be expressed only in the active (e.g. "you see me" and "I see him"). Subordinate clauses A subordinate clause is produced by prefixing one of the two subordinating particles, /wə-/ "if, when, that" and /ʔəl/ "whenever, whatever," to the first word in a predicate and replacing its coordinate agent marker with a subordinate agent marker. Subordinate agent markers are the same in both intransitive and transitive active predicates. Subordinate clauses usually follow main clauses, but there are a few exceptions. kʼʷəcnámə cən ceʔ, wənémʼè·n. "I will see you, if/when/that I go." Basic words and phrases See also List of Halkomelem-speaking peoples Brent Galloway Donna Gerdts Patricia Shaw Wayne Suttles References General Carlson, Keith Thor, ed. (2001). 'A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. Galloway, Brent D. (1993). A Grammar of Upriver Halkomelem. London, UK: University of California Press. Suttles, Wayne. (1990). Central Coast Salish. In Northwest Coast, 453-476. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Suttles, Wayne. (2004). Musqueam Reference Grammar. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. External links First Nations Languages of British Columbia page on Halkomelem Language Geek page on Halkomelem Status of British Columbia First Nations Languages Hul'q'umin'um Talking Dictionary Halkomelem Ethnobiology Web Site (SFU) Themes, thoughts, and theories on strategic planning for Hul'qumi'num language revitalization Lessons and Information about Hul'q'umi'num OLAC resources in and about the Halkomelem language Halkomelem basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database Coast Salish languages Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations languages in Canada