I am having trouble with this construction. I'm not sure if this is suppose to
be something similar to the noun+で(も)いい construction or maybe ので＋もいい. if it is
the latter, why the use of も.

the sentence I am pulling this from is: 俺は彼に一から十まで教えるんでもいいです。

"I've taught him everything from A to Z, so it's fine"?

If someone can translate the sentence and guide me in the right direction it
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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plain form+ んでもいい
This looks like the **explanatory の** （like のだ・のです・んだ・んです）. (It is used to
mark that the information answers an actual or anticipated question, i.e.,
"I'm not just saying this just for fun, but to explain something", and tends
to have an emphatic effect).

However, the following copula is converted to a conjunctive form で so that the
usual でもいい form for "it is okay/good/fine if" can be used.

So, although I'd need to see more context to be sure, this probably means
something along the lines of:

> It is okay, even if I will (end up) teaching him "from 1 to 10!"

The speaker might be reassuring the listener that even if it is a lot of
effort, he is willing to teach the learner in detail, or something along those
lines. The exact nuance is hard to tell without context, since explanatory の
interacts heavily with the 'outer' context, but if I had to guess, maybe the
listener worries that the learner is a beginner, and expressed worry that the
teacher doesn't know what he's getting himself into!

Note that a past-tense "I've (already) taught him everything" doesn't really
make much sense with the でもいい portion, and 教える isn't in past-tense form, so I
would **rule out a past-tense translation**. If it was "I've already taught
him everything so it is fine", I would expect something using ので・から and so
forth, like 俺は彼にもう一から十まで教えたんだから、平気だ.
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