Question

the following paragraph has not been edited. there is one error in each line.
if you taken interest in others, others will
take interest in you. we are very engrossed
in ourselves that we don't had time
to find in how.

Answer 1

If you take interest in others, others will take interest in you. We are so engrossed with ourselves, that we don't have time to find out how.

Answer 2

Answer :

Editing in language is defined as making changes to a text in order to correct mistakes and/or remove irrelevant parts to prepare the final draft for printing.

The purpose of editing exercises is to make students proficient in proof reading by helping them to identify and correct errors in a text.

The errors in the given passage along with their corrections are as follows :

   Incorrect                  Correct

(a) taken                        take

(b) very                           so

(c) had                            have

(d) in                               out