gh-158836: Clarify compound statement structure

[rupayon123]

Summary

Clarify that clauses within a statement align, while match statements contain nested case blocks in their suite. Also remove the claim that every header starts with a uniquely identifying keyword, and explain the two-keyword async forms.

This addresses #158836.

Testing

• sphinx-lint --enable=default-role Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst passed.
• git diff --check passed.
• A full Sphinx documentation build was not run; Sphinx is not installed in this environment.

AI assistance was used to investigate the issue and draft the documentation wording. I reviewed the revised description against the current grammar and surrounding reference text.

• Issue: A pair of problems with the introductory section to the "8. Compound statements" chapter. #158836

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Removed both NEWS fragments from the PR in 9529edc. The diff now contains only the documentation wording change. The bot says low-impact changes need a maintainer-applied skip news label; please add it if that is the required path here.

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I added the requested Documentation NEWS entry at Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2026-10-06-09-35-49.gh-issue-158836.d4db26.rst. It parses as reStructuredText, and the new commit is ece09b8f21b2511ad5f8635a8b65d587876e7ec5. The CLA status still shows pending, so the account holder needs to complete that step before the PR can proceed.

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