(The hyphons indicate a syllable)
Wa-ters great force
There are 4 syllables.
5
Simply speaking, the number of times you open your mouth to pronounce a word is the number of syllables. Therefore, "waters" would have two syllables.
There are three syllables in the phrase "friends are great". The syllables are friends-are-great.
There are two syllables in great : gr-eat
One syllable.
Greater has two syllables. The syllables are great-er.
One.
Te word 'force' has one syllable.
There are eight syllables.
2
One.
one