Regex to match words and those with an apostrophe

Question

Update: As per comments regarding the ambiguity of my question, I\'ve increased the detail in the question.

(Terminology: by words I am refering to

Answer 1

/('\w+)|(\w+'\w+)|(\w+')|(\w+)/

• '\w+ Matches a ' followed by one or more alpha characters, OR
• \w+'\w+ Matche sone or more alpha characters followed by a ' followed by one or more alpha characters, OR
• \w+' Matches one or more alpha characters followed by a '
• \w+ Matches one or more alpha characters