ITEMS is a throwaway connective that can be used in an INFO/ACCESS query to make it sound more like an English-language sentence. It has no effect.
Example
These two statements produce the same report:
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>SORT THE ITEMS IN THE CUSTOMERS FILE BY LAST-NAME |
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>SORT CUSTOMERS BY LAST-NAME |
The connectives THE, ITEMS, IN, and FILE are ignored in the first statement.
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