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This article suggests that T-to-C movement occurs in a main-wh interrogative even when the subject is a wh-phrase. When the subject wh-phrase in Spec-TP moves to Spec-CP, suppression of agreement on C is assumed to occur, which is also found in languages like Turkish and Palauan, though in different ways. In this case the trace of T is visible to affix hopping. When the object wh-phrase moves to Spec-CP, the suppression of agreement on C does not occur, which makes do-insertion applicable. Therefore, the contrast between subject and nonsubject asymmetry with respect to do-insertion follows.