Word Counting Rules:
• A sentence is any group of words ending with a period, exclamation point, or
question mark.
• Words with hyphens count-as-one-word.
• Proper nouns are counted.
• Read numbers out loud to decide the number of syllables.
• In long sentences with colons or semicolons followed by a list, count each part of
the list with the beginning phrase of the sentence as an individual sentence.
• Count abbreviations as the whole word they represent.