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One of my friends sent me this picture of a Pokemon game:

![Picture from Pokemon game](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U7U3z.jpg)

It says:

> いつでも どこでも だれとでも が  
>  ポケモン勝負の いいところ！

Although the meaning seems fairly obvious, I can't figure out how the grammar
works.

I'm under the impression that が _typically_ can't follow でも. (I can't remember
where I learned this rule, but I can find references online that agree. For
example, see [the chart here on page
60](http://books.google.com/books?id=iQk7zs5uSRoC&lpg=PA60&ots=RuHCrGMFNf&dq=%22demo%20ga%22%20%22japanese%22&hl=ja&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q&f=false)
which says that が can't follow でも.)

So why can が follow でも here?

  1. Is it possible that something is omitted before が? (This idea seems strange to me...)

  2. Is it something like 「いつでも」「どこでも」「だれとでも」が, where each of those three is treated as though it's a noun?

How does the grammar work?
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でも followed by が?
I think that the whole phrase "いつでも どこでも だれとでも" is being treated as a noun
phrase, (or rather list) as if there was an invisible (ということ/そのこと/そういうこと)
before the が.

You wouldn't normally see が after でも, and I don't think it's anything
particularly special - if someone said it they might have a dramatic pause or
something after what they're using as a block phrase. I have a feeling I've
experienced some examples of similar omissions before, but there was a fairly
clear break between the thing being treated as a phrase and the が.

At the very least, Google comes up with a few examples of:

「いつでも、どこでも、だれでも」が - marking the phrase with 「」
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Probably this is not 100% grammatically correct but as a Japanese I don't find
anything wrong.

Let's create another example. 「うまい、はやい、やすい、がうちのモットーです。」Adjective should not be
used like this if you think about grammar, but we say this.

If you talk about only one characteristc, then we don't use a sentence like
this. I don't think we say 「だれとでも が ポケモン勝負の いいところ！」. If you want to
specifically discuss one thing, then 「だれとでも 遊べる の が ポケモン勝負の いいところ」would be
appropriate.

An English expression I can think of is "woulda coulda shoulda" treated as
noun. Well, this might not be similar, but three similar expressions are
treated as a collection of nouns. Interesting.
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The expression does not follow our normal grammatical rules but if you have
learnt to live with:

> 誰もがそうする。| Everybody does it.

The expression doesn't feel too unnatural (?), possibly reminiscent of the
kind of Japanese that appears in the JLPT N1 to throw candidates off.

I also came across the following in space-ALC, which suggests the grammar /
use is not unique:

> 誰でもが見られるように～の一番目立つ場所に置いてある | enjoy a prominent place in ~ for all to see
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