SELECT cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_text REGEXP '[[:<:]]it's[[:>:]]' AND cur_namespace=0
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Poor, Edmund W Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 08:40 To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] It's about its
Most of us can readily apply the following two rules: * to show possession, it's correct to use: its * we may change "it is" to its contraction: it's
So, I would like to be able to search for instances of:
it's
...so I can check whether it's being used as a contraction for "it is" (correct) or as a possessive (incorrect: change to "its").
But when I tried to use Wikipedia search, entering:
it's
I got a bunch of articles with the following 2 characters highlighted in red:
's
...which is a superset of what I want.
What is the correct search string to enter?
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