Windy Skies
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I have automatically counted the frequency of words in a book. I would like to find the sentences containing the most frequent words, to base a course on. I will reformat the book to have a line-break after every short phrase. Example, randomly picked from Gutenberg.org (in A1:A30000):
I would like to change the text in B2, to "poem" for example and have the list in A1:A30000 be filtered in place to only display those phrases containing "poem".
Perhaps there are other, better alternatives? I don't think I can make vlookup work.
THE UNITED AMATEUR for September contains something only too seldom found in the amateur press; a really meritorious short story.
"The Shadow on the Trail," by Eleanor J. Barnhart, possesses every element of good fiction; a substantial and really interesting plot, a logical development from beginning to conclusion, an adequate amount of suspense, a climax which does not disappoint, and a praiseworthy degree of local colour.
Besides all of which it is fluent in language and correct in syntax.
The rest of the literary department in this issue is devoted to verse.
"To a Friend," by Alice M. Hamlet, is particularly pleasing through the hint of old-school technique which its well ordered phrases convey.
The one weak point is the employment of =thy=, a singular expression, in connexion with several objects; namely, "paper, pen, and ready hand.
" =Your= should have been used.
The metre is excellent throughout, and the whole piece displays a gratifying skill on its author's part.
"The Path Along the Sea," by Rev. Eugene B. Kuntz, is a flawless and beautiful bit of sentimental poetry, cast in fluent and felicitous heptameter.
"Dad," by Horace Fowler Goodwin, is decidedly the best of this writer's pieces yet to appear in the amateur press.
The defects are mostly technical, including the bad rhyme of =engaged= and =dismayed=, and the overweighted seventh line of the final stanza.
I would like to change the text in B2, to "poem" for example and have the list in A1:A30000 be filtered in place to only display those phrases containing "poem".
Perhaps there are other, better alternatives? I don't think I can make vlookup work.