TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Construction began in 1519 and was largely finished by 1547. Sentence 2: Construction lasted from 1519-1547. 

SOLUTION: travel

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: But evidently she's in with them, or she wouldn't have gone back." Sentence 2: Clearly, she has nothing to do with them.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The question of how the audacious paper turned stodgy floats over the Post newsroom like a thought balloon. Sentence 2: The newsroom is full of dullards who are not concerned about how the paper has changed.

SOLUTION:
slate