 We can rewrite ‘\(\textrm{Likes}(\textrm{Juliet}, y)\)’ as ‘\([\textrm{Likes}(y)](\textrm{Juliet})\)’, to reflect the fact that ‘likes’ combines with a direct object to form a phrase, which in turn combines with a subject. But this does not affect the main point: ‘every’ seems to be a grammatical constituent of the verb phrase ‘likes every doctor’; yet it also seems to indicate the main quantifier of the expressed proposition. In natural language, ‘likes’ and ‘every doctor’ form a phrase. But with respect to logical form, it is as if ‘likes’ combines with ‘Juliet’ and a variable to form a complex predicate that is in turn an external argument of the higher-order predicate ‘every’. Similar remarks apply to ‘Some boy likes every doctor’ and