How do you change the following sentence to the past tense?: The paint is drying.

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-25T08:55:30

One of the possible answers is "The paint was drying"

The rule of changing the tense is :

if the sentence has only one verb you change this verb to the required tense.
if the sentence has more than one verb you have to change the auxiliary verb (to be, to have) to correct tense.

This sentence has 2 verbs main (to dry), and auxiliary (to be), so to change the tense you have to change the auxiliary verb (be) to Past Tense (was)