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[www0935]

My question is as follows:

All of us have such a bank called TIME. It adds 864,00 seconds to our account every morning. Every nigh, it deletes, as lost, ________ part of the balance that you fail to use during the day.
(A) any (B) whatever (C) a (D) no matter

Which one is the correct answer?
Please help me out. Thanks.

[pugachevV]

Any. It's used here to refer to some of a thing (part) no matter how much.

[www0935]

Here is another sentence.

Every evening it deletes [b]whatever[/b] part of the balance you failed to use during the day.

My question is:
In this case, can I replace "whatever" with "any"? Is there any difference?

Thanks again.

[pugachevV]

You can replace whatever with any.