In this paper we investigate the use of adverbs by L2 writers, using data from French, Polish and Swedish speakers taken from ICLE. In addition, we make use of data from LOCNESS as a comparative NS corpus. Rather than calculate overuse or underuse for the writing as a whole, we provide a more specific analysis and relate frequency of adverb use to position in the sentence: 1st word, 2nd word, etc. This provides a more nuanced view of differences among L2 writers and also links their writing to text structure, which in this case is at the level of the sentence. This also has the potential to provide some insights into the rhetorical flow of writing among the different Bub-corpora.