Associating the second word of a sentence to a variable. (Python)

Question

I'm currently trying to perform this, but my book for class doesn't show anything in relation to Boolean variables or anything related to this problem. I've been looking online for a while and everything is way too complicated for something that should be simple according the unit. If the solution is posted here, what was typed in to find it? Maybe I need to rephrase my question.

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Answer 1

def getSecondWord(sentence):
    res = sentence.split(' ')[1]
    if res.endswith('.'):
        return res[:-1]
    else:
        return res

inputSentence = 'broccoli is delicious'
secondWord = getSecondWord(inputSentence)

print("second word is:", secondWord)