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Why do you sometimes use the auxiliary (do/does/did) and sometimes you don't?
Ex: "What did you eat for lunch?"
"What caused the accident?"
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Why do you sometimes use the auxiliary (do/does/did) and sometimes you don't?
Ex: "What did you eat for lunch?"
"What caused the accident?"
because, in your first sentence, you have a subject( you)

but in the second one, there is no subject, so there is no auxiliary verb
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