At the end of a sentence:
Punctuation | Symbol | Example |
period | . | I said it. |
question mark | ? | Did I say it? |
exclamation mark | ! | Say it! |
In the middle of a sentence:
Punctuation | Symbol | Example |
comma | , | I said it, but he did not want to hear it. |
colon | : | These are the colors: blue, red, yellow, green, purple, and orange. |
semicolon | ; | I said something; now the silence feels heavier than the words ever did. |
quotation | ” “ | I said “you are crazy.” |
apostrophe | ‘ | I didn’t say that. |