Procedure(s): make the string all lower case (use a string method called lower) note that you will have to assign the output to a variable. You can use a variable name like temp_string remove all punctuation from the string (use your new function remove_punctuation) this can also assign out to temp_string split the string into words (look for and use a string method called split) note that split will return a list of strings. Assign this as out_list return out_list g