Given that ablative absolute occurs only in Latin, why should it? The
equivalent constructions in English are usually barbarous and effectively
ungrammatical (as with your example).

Stop being pretentious and get back to work.



"Paul Tomlinson" Paul wrote in message
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The spell checker will not recognise an ablative absolute; for example,
where
a person writes something as an antecedent to a result clause:

"This considered [ablative absolute], it would be helpful if...[result
clause]"

The spellchecker currently assumes that the "it" in the example above is
the
subject of "considered."

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