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Complete the food critic's brutally honest review of an avant-garde restaurant's "deconstructed toast" dish. Select ALL the options that correctly fill in the blank to create a valid concessive clause.
__________, I simply refuse to pay $45 for a pile of warm breadcrumbs and a side of butter vapor.
The correct answers are Much as I appreciate culinary innovation, However much I appreciate culinary innovation, and No matter how much I appreciate culinary innovation.
Much as is a highly idiomatic concessive phrase meaning "Even though I [verb] very much." It is usually used with verbs of feeling or preference (like, love, hate, appreciate).
However much and No matter how much are also perfectly valid ways to introduce this concessive idea.
"As much I appreciate" is grammatically incomplete (missing the first "As"), and "Even though much I appreciate" has incorrect word order (it should be "Even though I appreciate culinary innovation very much").