“I quickly walked down the street” means something different than “I walked down the street quickly”. The first means that the walk itself was quick, and can imply that the trip down the street was short, easy, perfunctory, etc. The second implies that the act of walking was quick, implying a hurried pace. The two meanings are almost but not quite at odds, mainly because we have the same word for the act of walking as we do for the walk (journey) itself, unlike many languages. We also don’t differentiate something we’re doing now from something we habitually do from something which is a persistent and conscious action, nor do we differentiate something we did from something we finished doing from something we did completely.
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