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: For such people, then and now, a sense of place and community is not merely the most sustaining fact of daily life, it is the most dignifying. Sentence 2: A sense of place and community is an essential part of life for some people.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: I was about to say that studies showed no connection. Sentence 2: I was about to speak.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: And it mayn't be so at all!  Sentence 2: And it may be something else.

SOLUTION:
fiction