This paper focuses on sentences containing stage and individual level predicates, examining changes in interpretation when the predicates are combined with certain types of adverbials. Based on data from Finnish, I propose that the division of predicates into two groups (ie stage and individual level predicates) is not always clear-cut, but that there seem to exist different degrees of stage and individual levelness. Individual level predicates can for example sometimes have properties that are stage level. Secondly, I propose that the stage or individual level readings may not always originate from the predicates themselves (ie are not always contained in the predicates themselves), but can be brought about by certain types of adverbials. Thirdly I shall put forward the hypothesis that stage and individual level predicates, because they seem to have different distributions, might also have different syntactic structures.