What is the difference between "how you would" or "how would you" and when to use them? [closed]

In "how would you", the verb and subject (you would) are inverted (would you?) to form a question, like "how would you like to receive your messages?", "how would you answer this question?" How is a question word that can (depending on context) be substituted by When, Where, Why...

The normal form "how you would" is just this, "you would" is a conditional form: if X, then you would Y. "If there are any messages, this is how you would like to receive them." no question here, just an affirmation.

The correct way to phrase your sentence is not one of the two you proposed. Here are the correct ways:

How would you like to receive your messages? (a question) Please select. (an instruction) You could also put the instruction at the beginning with punctuation between instruction and question: "Please select: how would you like...?"
Please select how you would like to receive your messages. (not a question, no question mark, it's an instruction)

I think the confusion comes from the choice between the instruction "Please select how you would like" and the question "How would you like ?"

Here's another example of inversion to make a question: