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Now that you've added a method
to the object literal,

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your task was to practice
calling this method.

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After the object,
you were asked to create a variable and

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set it to the return value
from the countWords method.

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Let's declare the variable.

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I'll call it numWords, but
any variable name would work.

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Now, if you recall, to access a property
on an object or to call one of its methods

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using dot notation, you write the name of
the object, which in our case is myString,

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because that's the variable
that the object is stored in,

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followed by a dot, followed by
the name of the property or method.

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Dot notation isn't the only way to access
an object's properties or methods,

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you can also use bracket notation.

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So I'll edit the code to show you how
to do this with bracket notation, too.

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Both dot and bracket notation
are acceptable to use when working with

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objects, but I find dot notation
easier to read and write.