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The following sentences are from a reading passage. I'm confused on the third
sentence - the previous two are just given for context.

> 日本ではどこに行っても、「きまりですから」という言葉を耳にする。 これを言われてしまうと、こちらにはもう反論の余地はない。
> **どんなに常識的で正当な理由もこの言葉にはかなわない。**

I understand that the meaning is something like "No matter what kind of
commonplace or appropriate reasons you give, there's nothing you can do about
those words." But there's no verb ("give" in the case of "give a reason"), and
it would seem どんなに would only apply if there was some kind of verb (for
example, どんなに...理由を挙げても). As it stands, shouldn't it be どんな...理由(で)も? What am
I missing here?
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grammar particles
Unnecessary に in "どんなに" in this sentence?
The どんな here takes a に because it's being used adverbially to modify
adjectives 常識的 and 正当. The bit up through the も is parseable as one big noun
phrase, which could be diagrammed as:

`[NP [ADV どんなに [ADJP [ADJ 常識的] [CONJ で] [ADJ 正当] [PRT な]]] [N 理由]]`

(Click [this link](http://yohasebe.com/rsyntaxtree/), paste the above into the
text field, choose a Japanese-compatible font like JP-Gothic, and click the
**Draw PNG** button to see a prettier version of the diagram.)

Code key:

  * `NP` == noun phrase
  * `ADV` == adverb
  * `ADJP` == adjective phrase
  * `ADJ` == adjective
  * `CONJ` == conjunction
  * `PRT` == particle
  * `N` == noun
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