Do you mean this?I think the definite article is optional following "no matter what".
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S = subject
V = verb
C = complement
I'm wondering why you used "N" with brackets. Does that mean anything?Huddleston & Pullum (2002) say, "[N]o matter is an idiom with the form of an NP which might be regarded as having been reanalyzed as a preposition" (761).
Yes, it does. The "N" is in brackets in my quotation because I was capitalizing the letter. As you can see, the letter is a lower-case "n" in the original.I'm wondering why you used "N" with brackets. Does that mean anything?![]()
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