| 单词 | subtonic |
| 例句 | Be careful not to convert the subtonic into a tonic. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 The latter philosopher resolves the letters into "tonics, subtonics, and atonics;" and avers that "consonants alone may form syllables." The Grammar of English Grammars The elementary sounds of speech are of three natural divisions; the tonics, the subtonics, and the atonics. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Proceed in a similar manner with the other subtonics. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 The Atonics correspond with the first eleven of the subtonics as given above, from which they differ almost alone in having no vocality. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Indefinite Syllables are capable of almost indefinite prolongation; they are those which terminate in a tonic, or any subtonic except one of the three abrupt subtonics, b, d, g; for example, awe, fudge, hail, arm. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 They should therefore adhere strictly to their "tonics, subtonics, and atonics;" which classes, though apparently the same as vowels, semivowels, and mutes, are better adapted to their new and peculiar division of these elements. The Grammar of English Grammars Some syllables that so end, by virtue of tonic or subtonic elements which they may contain, are capable of some prolongation; for example, warp, dart, block, grab, dread, grog. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Nay, this grammatist makes b, not a labial mute, as Walker, Webster, Cobb, and others, have called it, but a nasal subtonic, or semivowel. The Grammar of English Grammars "So gradually as to allow its being engrafted on a subtonic." The Grammar of English Grammars |
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