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Part of speech whose members indicate an action or a state of being.

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Does a main verb undergo inversion in "Has he any shame?"

My undergraduate textbook builds a case to posit separate classes of verbs as lexical, auxiliary, modal in nature. … One criterion is how auxiliary and modals (unlike main verbs) undergo inversion but the sentence "Has he any shame" sounds perfectly grammatical to me. Any help is much appreciated. …
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