Not necessarily, but occasionally. For example, the sentences "They sometimes like to listen to the latest music" is present continuous, while the sentence "They sometimes liked to listen to the latest music" is past tense. So the word sometime does not show which tense it is and can be used in different tenses.
It is past tense. The word that shows that is 'did'.
Rang is the past tense of ring.
Yes, "using" is the present participle form of the verb "use." The past tense form of "use" is "used." For example, "I used the computer yesterday."
To use the word "akin" in the past tense in a sentence, you would change it to "akin to," which means similar to or like. For example: "The new technology was akin to the older model in many ways."
Just used the past tense word of what you are trying to describe. For example -He is running. Past tense. He ran.
It depends on the specifics. Sometimes it should be replaced with 'did', such as in the sentence "We will learn this" which is the future tense of "We did learn this", but another past tense version of that is "We learnt this already" or "We've learnt this already", so it depends on context.
It is already in past tense, because it has the word built, which is in past tense. In present tense, it's, "You are building the boat very quickly."
There is no past tense of the word "fines," because it is a noun. But, if in a pastly sentence then it would be: I got a fine, or I got many fines.
My Mom was at the store yesterday
She has not spoken to him since their disagreement.
Use a past tense sentence subject and a present tense sentence predicate example: The movie was very amusing.
Wanted. Sometimes the word is used to convey need or lack [of]. In that case the past tense is still Wanted.