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This has come up before here. "All" in these examples is a floated quantifier, produced by the transformation "Quantifier Float". However, if you think that this rule functions to convert a quantifie …

I think "entering" should have been followed by a comma: "and thus entering, they occupied every part of the plaza." "Thus entering" is an absolute construction. It has the force of an adverbial sub …

It's hard to classify. My guess is that "around" is part of the verb "mope around". If it were a preposition, it ought to be okay to say *"Around what did he mope?" or *"the house around which he mo …

The second example has to be read with an intonation break between "still" and "though", which justifies a comma there, since those two words do not form a syntactic constituent. That's my personal o …

There are at least three theories about the syntactic types of adverbs: containing constituent (see Thomason & Stalnaker and also Zeno Vendler), where manner adverbs are taken to be within verb phrases … as direct objects In all three theories, there are other types of adverbs as well, and manner adverbs do not have a special privileged status. …

English adverbs don't modify verbs (with the possible exception of degree adverbs). … One reasonably well worked out scheme characterizing English adverbs is McCawley's, where clause adverbs are distinguished by the type of constituent they modify. …

No, your example sounds very peculiar, and I think you have hit on the reason why: "fully" and "electrically" are both adverbs of the same type occurring in the same clause. …

On (1), I rely on McCawley's classification of adverbs (see p. 197 and elsewhere in The Syntactic Phenomena of English). …

There is something right about this, but I tend to think that, rather than modifying either the verb alone or the entire verb phrase, quickly modifies either the verb phrase alone (which specifies an …

I don't know why "basically" can come between subject and verb phrase, "I basically ate pizza every day", however other performative adverbs can also occur in this position: "I frankly don't give a damn …

You're right -- "adamantly" is an adverb modifying the verb "refusing". There is sometimes confusion in explaining this sort of construction when people argue that "refusing" must be a noun because i …

When "quickly" comes before the verb, it is a sentence adverb, and it means that only a small interval of time passed between some past reference time and the event of you eating the sandwich. When " …

The best reference I know is the chapter on adverbs in McCawley's book The Syntactic Phenomena of English. … Here is an interesting paper from 1970 by George Lakoff on the logic of adverbs: Adverbs and modal operators. …

As sumelic says in his answer, both "quiet" and "quietly" are grammatical here. "Quiet" is a complement of the verb "lie", while "quietly" is a manner adverb modifier of the verb phrase "lie". ("lie …

and according to a theory of Zeno Vendler's, you can't have two adverbs of the same type in the same clause unless you conjoin them. … However, the adverbs might not be manner adverbs. Maybe "unreasonably" is a sentence adverb, with the sense It was unreasonable that their budget was cut. …