Please be clear what is being asked in this challenge...

Hi Andrew,

While I didn’t find the statements within the challenge to be conflicting, it did take me a second to process what it wanted me to do.

I’m assuming you know what an object literal is. If not (if you’re shaky on that), then that would definitely throw the objective for the challenge out of whack. Anyway, the challenge is asking you to create a property outside of the object. So don’t mess with the code for the object directly, but add a property.

And there are two ways in which you can add a property (or method) to an object. Either through dot or bracket syntax.

So... someObject.myProperty = ‘foo’
Or... someObject[‘myProperty’] = ‘foo’

Here’s a solution:

const myString = {
    string: "Programming with Treehouse is fun!",
    countWords: function(){
        const wordArray = this.string.split(' ');
        return wordArray.length;
    }
}

myString.characters = myString.string.length // my addition

var numWords = myString.countWords();