Granting your opponent a point, then taking it back
A set of frozen openings that let you concede the other side's point in the first half of the sentence so that your own argument lands with full weight in the second.
Much as I admire her energy, I cannot support the plan.
English can grant the opposing point first, in a marked opening placed before the main clause, so that the argument you actually want to make arrives last and therefore lands hardest. Three frozen frames do this work: one built on an adverb of degree plus the linking word and a clause, normally with a verb of liking or admiring inside it; one built on a preposition plus a noun phrase naming the quality you are conceding; and one that pulls a single adjective, or the bare form of a verb, to the front of the clause before that same linking word. The order inside each frame is fixed, nothing may be inserted into it, and the parts cannot be reordered. Everything after the comma is the real point of the sentence.
The usual trap is reaching for the ordinary concessive conjunction instead. That version is perfectly correct, but it flattens the sentence: the marked opening is precisely what signals that you have weighed the other side and are still ruling against it. The second trap is fronting the wrong element. In the second and fourth lines a single word moves to the front, the bare form of the verb or the adjective on its own, and it sits immediately before the linking word with the subject following in normal order. Do not swap the subject and the verb after that linking word, because a question-like order there is wrong. Note also that the frame in the second line is not finished at the subject: it needs the modal that follows, and without it the sentence collapses.