重提og10，however much/many？

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However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.

(A)  However much United States voters may agree that      

(B)  Despite the agreement among United States voters to the fact

(C)  Although United States voters agree

(D)  Even though United States voters may agree

(E)   There is agreement among United States voters that

答案没问题

我的问题是However many United States voters may agree that 对不对？其中However作副词修饰many

另外http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=42384中maotian提到“however much/many +n, s+v+o.中much/many修饰n”没太看懂，请nn指教一二

谢谢

tianwan

1，应该可以。2，maotian加了逗号，你再看看，没逗号，然后有逗号。不过我不知道这个加逗号的用法。

我爱宝宝

我觉得，这里的however是用作连词，这样用才与主句“it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.”不矛盾。

tttaotao

可是however是副词，不可以连接句子啊？ however much 是固定搭配吗？啥意思？表示让步？

tttaotao

额.... 懂了
参见帖子：However Much--OG 10
Jalapeno4u：
The expression "however much" means the same thing as "no matter how much."
Example:  No matter how much they tried, the children still could not open the door.
However much they tried to open the door, the children still were unsuccessful.
In your example, the writer is saying that the U.S. voters "agree that there is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means," but no matter how much they agree with this, there is still not broad support for making government smaller (moving "toward a minimal state").
Another example:  
However much we try to overcome our faults, we always tend to repeat our mistakes.
No matter how much we try to improve, we cannot ever be perfect.

Gail小M

here however is a conj, thus it can introduce a clause.

Gail小M

no matter how much they agree with this, there is still not broad support for making government smaller (moving "toward a minimal state").

看起来句式很舒服.maotian" however much s+v+o这种句型，much 是修饰v。(这是题中的用法）所以，much形容的是agree的程度"

it is right. Here much is a adv, modify the verb "agree"