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: yeah that's strange Sentence 2: That's odd.

SOLUTION: telephone

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: um-hum thanks a lot bye-bye Sentence 2: I really appreciate all your help, take care!

SOLUTION: telephone

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: A piece claims that the House Flytrap proceedings lack the solemnity of Watergate--they have all the grandeur of Ft. Sentence 2: The House Flytrap proceedings had all of the solemnity of Watergate.

SOLUTION:
slate