This study sheds light on the frequency of adverbials in literary texts. It highlights the most frequent location of adverbial in different literary genres. This research emphasises the importance of the certain positions of adverbials in literature. The researcher hopes to reveal the relationship between the position of adverbials and particular literary techniques. It attempts to show how adverbials spread in literary texts. It aims at presenting percentages of adverbial places. The study clarifies the effect of using adverbials in a certain position. Furthermore, the researcher of the present study assumes that the initial position is the most frequent location in poetry, it is used more than the other sites. The researcher also hypothesizes that the initial position is commonly subject-verb or subject-operator inversion. This position emphasises certain settings, reasons, purposes, etc. On the other hand, this study is limited to literary texts. The researcher selects a poem, play, short story, novella, and novel. He chooses one sample from each literary genre. It excludes the scientific ones. It only reveals the frequency of adverbials locations and the effects of adverbials places. The study consists of four chapters. The first chapter reveals the statement of the problem, research questions, hypotheses, aims and the scope of the study. Chapter two tackles the theoretical background of adverbial in English. The third chapter sheds light on the practical side of the present study. It tackles the percentages of adverbials places in novels, novellas, plays, short stories, and poems. Chapter four is a summary of the present thesis. It offers conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions for further studies