Why did you hang up the phone?

Question

The phone rang and Brandon was going to picked up the phone.
Brandon answered the phone and suddenly hung up the phone.

I asked Brandon, "Why did you hang up the phone?"

Why did you hang up the phone. (Question)
I hung up the phone because.... (without did)
I did hung up the phone because... (Is this wrong? with did)

Why the question must have "did"? But in the statement we are not going to use "I did hung up...".

GPY · Accepted Answer

If the affirmative sentence contains no auxiliary or modal verb, then the appropriately inflected form of the auxiliary "did" is added to make the question (except if the main verb is "be" or, sometimes, "have"). At the same time, the main verb is made into its base form:

I hung up the phone. -> Why did you hang up the phone?
I eat lunch here every day. -> Why do you eat lunch here every day?
He hates his brother. -> Why does he hate his brother?

This is just the way that English questions work.

"I did hung up the phone" is ungrammatical. "I did hang up the phone" is grammatical and can be used, with stressed "did", when special emphasis is required, e.g. when contradicting what someone else has said.

— She says you didn't hang up the phone.
— That's not true. I did hang up the phone!

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