import re


def cleanPunc(sentence):
    """
        function to clean the word of any punctuation or special characters
        Args
        :param: sentence {str} uncleaned sentence
        :returns
            {str}: clean sentence

    """
    cleaned = re.sub(r'[?|!|\'|"|#]',r'',sentence)
    cleaned = re.sub(r'[.|,|)|(|\|/]',r' ',cleaned)
    cleaned = cleaned.strip()
    cleaned = cleaned.replace("\n"," ")
    return cleaned