In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.

Q: Sentence 1: The help, although late, has earned Dudovitz some appreciation. Sentence 2: The early help earned Dudovitz some appreciation.

A: government
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Q: Sentence 1: Why not? What would you have done if you had found _him_ wandering on _your_ native world; found him sleeping on a field on Earth, red tentacles, six legs, pseudopods and all?   Sentence 2: The alien was gray and six feet tall with humanlike form.

A: fiction
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Q: Sentence 1: De Kooning could have been thinking of his idol Soutine when he observed, Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented. Sentence 2: De Kooning connected oil paints with sensuality.

A:
slate
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