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. |

