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Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb:
Jane ______ (not/drink) tea very often.
A) Not drinks
B) Have not drink
C) Doesn’t drink
D) Is not drinking

Answer
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Hint:
i) Auxiliary verbs will be used in a given sentence.
ii) Auxiliary verbs in grammar are a helping factor that adds meaning to the basic meaning of the main iii) verb in a clause, usually a verb.
iii) Information on tense, mood, person, and number can be conveyed by auxiliaries. An auxiliary verb in the form of an infinitive or a participle occurs with a main verb.

Complete answer:
Here we are talking about jane, in the third person not all sentences include pronouns :
if you look at this sentence and think “Jane isn’t me,” you can see it’s not the first person.
You can also think “I’m not talking to Jane,” you can see it’s not the second person now You’re left with the third person. Thus Given sentence is a third person singular sentence so it will require an auxiliary verb to complete it. We are given hints “not/drink” too.

Lets see options :
A) Not drinks : here action of drinking is expressed by do/does which is not used here thus this option is wrong.
B) Have not drink : 'have not drink' means that Jane doesn't have a drink to drink, which makes the argument distinct and false thus this option is wrong too
C) Doesn’t drink : doesn’t drink is used in negative and third person singular statements thus this option is the correct option.
D) Is not drinking : In the present tense,' is not drinking' is used as an event in the present, although the assertion is made as a fact and does not specify the current situation thus this option is wrong too.

Note: Much of the time, they communicate in the first person as people talk about themselves. Speaking about yourself in the third person all the time would definitely be eccentric, but you can do it once in a while for comic effect or to catch someone's attention.