Subject question?
"Can you remember the first time you ever used the World Wide Web or as we often call it, the Internet, and what you used it for?" Now, I know that we can omit the auxiliary "Do.did in this case" when we use a subject question, but it's hard to me consider this sentence as a subject question. I see that there is a subject and it is "you" and I can't assume "for what" as a subject. Can you help me? Thanks.
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It´s not a question to a subject, it´s a proper question but as it consists of 2 parts you don´t need to make inversion twice.
"Can you remember the first time..." is the part that took the inversion, then you have "...you ever used..." - no inversion.
The same happens with the second part: "Can you remember what you used it for", here in the second part there's no inversion either.
Basically if you have a complex question one inversion for all of it is enough.
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