Computing contraction of a 3-form with vector field

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I am trying to understand the idea of contraction by computing the contraction of

$$dx\wedge dy \wedge dz$$

over the vector field

$$x\frac{\partial }{\partial y}-z\frac{\partial }{\partial x}$$

I got that this is equal to

$$dx(-z\frac{\partial }{\partial x})\wedge dy \wedge dz+dx\wedge dy(x\frac{\partial }{\partial y})\wedge dz$$ $$=-zdy\wedge dz+xdx\wedge dz$$

Is this correct?