Here a regex I find useful for finding & correcting contractions that have spaces in them. Don't blast this with a replace all as it does match false positives where a word has been shortened to only a single letter.
Target text.
Quote:
don‘ t
wasn ’t
Couldn’ t
I ‘m
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False positive
Quote:
Th’ lads ’re all
An’ let ’m
what ’m I going to do
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Code:
Search \b(\s(‘|’)|(‘|’)\s)(d|m|s|t|ll|re|ve)\b(?!’)
Replace ’\4