Hackerrank Python(Basic) certification test question. Required to manipulate a sentence according to an algorithm.

transformSentence.py

def transformSentence(sentence):
    # Write your code here
    words = sentence.split(' ')
    result_arr = []
    for word in words:
        if len(word) == 1:
            result_arr.append(word)
            continue
        new_word = ''
        for i in range(0, len(word)):
            if i == 0:
                new_word += word[i]
                continue
            if (ord(word[i].lower()) > ord(word[i-1].lower())):
                 new_word += word[i].upper()
            elif(ord(word[i].lower()) < ord(word[i-1].lower())):
                new_word += word[i].lower()
            else:
                new_word += word[i]
        result_arr.append(new_word)
    new_sentence = ' '.join(result_arr)
    return new_sentence