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This article is concerned with how V-movement and affix-lowering can be dealt with in the framework of the minimal program after Chomsky (1998), where Chomsky declared that V-movement occurs in the PF component, not in the syntax. However, in this article, assuming that head-movement occurs in the syntax, I will show that V-movement is triggered by a syntactic operation such as C(ategorial)-Selection. Thus V raises to T because T C-selects V. On the other hand English main verbs can not move to T in that they are lack of a [person] feature, which is essential to make a copy for moving whereas affix-hopping occurs in the morphological component after Spell-Out. Thus affix -s in T can be lowered to V irrespective of being Adverb phrases between them because only X0 is only visible in the morphology which deals with word formation.