[Grammar] Clean All Up

[highlandw]

"He cleaned the place all up"
"He cleaned all the place up"
"He cleaned the place up all"

Where should "all" be put?

 

[emsr2d2]

None of them is very natural.

He cleaned the place up.
He cleaned the whole place up.

If someone spills, for instance, an entire jar of coffee on the floor, you might say "You need to clear that all up", meaning "all of the spilt coffee".

 

[Chicken Sandwich]

emsr2d2, before you waste any more of your time on this user, please note that highlandw is the oh-so-persistent troll. Take a look at his/her previous posts. Do you see the similarities?

news.yahoo.com/ancestral-russia-lures-land-hungry-mexican-mennonites-182804491.html;_ylt=A2KJjamc28ZQZWMAkwnQtDMD


"More than a century after Mennonite farmers left Russia for North America in search of new lands and religious freedom, hundreds of their descendants in Mexico are thinking about completing the circle."

What is "completing the circle"?

news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/watch-insane-european-robbers-try-heist-moving-truck-231928520.html

"Watch insane European robbers try to make a heist on a moving truck"

Is "make a heist" correct English?

news.yahoo.com/photos/window-handle-door-back-seat-seen-removed-taxi-photo-093116653.html
"A window handle on the door at the back seat is seen removed in a taxi in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012."

corbisfootage.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-15774863/coffins-are-seen-removed-from-tombs-after
"Coffins are seen removed from tombs after Katrina in cemetery "

Is "seen removed" interpreted differently in those two pictures? In the first, the window handle "seen removed" is not in the picture. In the second, the coffins "seen removed" are in the picture.

news.yahoo.com/japan-takes-cautious-tone-dispute-increasingly-assertive-china-135414088.html

"Though it doesn’t want to be seen as buckling under pressure from Beijing, the Democratic Party of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has little strength with which to face an angry China, unpopular as it is at home and facing a general election it is likely to lose."

How is "unpopular as it is at home" different from "unpopular at home"?

news.yahoo.com/colorado-suspect-brilliant-science-student-230349806.html
"In the age of widespread social media, no trace of Holmes could be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter or anywhere on the Web. Either he never engaged or he scrubbed his trail."

Does "engage" mean getting married? What is "engage" here?

Posts that link to news.yahoo.com are suspect, though that isn't the only indication.