TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given two sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2, and the genre they belong to. Your job is to determine if the two sentences belong to the same genre or not. Indicate your answer with Y and N respectively. Genres available include: face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction. Sentences belonging to 'face-to-face' genres relate to conversations or dialogues, 'government' encompasses information released from public government websites, 'letters' refers to any written work for philanthropic fundraising, '9/11' relates to information pertaining to the 9/11 attacks, 'oup' includes non-fiction works on the textile industry and child development, 'slate' refers to any cultural topic that appears in the slate magazine, 'telephone' includes telephonic dialogue, 'travel' deals with information in travel guides, 'verbatim' includes short posts regarding linguistics, and 'fiction' includes popular works of fiction like 'The Secret Adversary' etc.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Prototype hardware is key to testing for reliability growth. Sentence 2: Only city carriers deliver advertising mail. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The countryside, villages, and towns of Flanders, Picardy, Alsace, and Lorraine bear the scars of many wars. Sentence 2: He lived abroad. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Well, I learnt that Miss Howard had been on afternoon duty on Tuesday, and that ”a convoy coming in unexpectedly ”she had kindly offered to remain on night duty, which offer was gratefully accepted.  Sentence 2: Miss Howard had been free on Tuesday and had not been keen to take on the night duty. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION:
Y