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Do punctuation marks count as words?

April 26, 2017marks punctuation words

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Do punctuation marks count as words?

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A word is considered to be a group of characters separated by a space. Any term containing a hyphen (“twenty-five”) or an apostrophe (“can’t”, “don’t”) counts as a single word. Every article (“the”, “a”, etc.) counts as a separate word. Punctuation marks do not count as words.