Can you restate that sentence without a negative connotation?
There was a connotation of grief in his voice.
The assignment given to the class was to study the denotation of the sentences as a whole. Another example: In the study of language, all words have a denotation (a dictionary meaning) but some also have a connotation (what the word means in the culture, the emotions the word can evoke).
So, you need some example sentences? I felt so relieved to finish my example sentences. The boy wrote, "So what?" as an example sentence.
Fugal
That's a beautiful skylight!
There are some ducks in the millpond right now.
Some words do not have a negative connotation,as this word does. Actually, the word clothes is a neutral word and has no connotation at all.
Lets synchronize our watches.
The connotation is what you think of when you hear that word. For example, some people think of how cute cats are and their first cats, etc...some people hate cats, and that's what they think of when they hear the word. Here's another example: thin and scrawny. Which one has the more positive connotation? Thin. Scrawny sounds like a malnourished and ugly thing to be, but thin sounds attractive and positive.
Connotation means an idea or feeling that invokes a person the literal meaning. For example, the word discipline gives the connotation of unhappiness.
The principal has to prevent the children from emergencies.
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries
The definition of connotations is that which is implied by a word in addition to its literal or primary meaning. Connotation is the feeling a certain word or phrase makes us feel suddenly. It can also mean the negative or positive feeling society places on some words especially slang.