All junior high students exposed to Latin ablative absolute phrases, in my experience, seemed prone to employ nominative absolute phrases in their composition. Those who took Spanish or French (or in one school, Koine Greek) did not. Scott Catledge ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 20:53:05 -0800 From: Scott Woods <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Developmental phases of grammar knowledge --0-1993323739-1233550385=:23579 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear List, =A0 I have read that some constructions do not appear in student writing until = they are at the right age.=A0 I do not recall where I read this, but it see= ms to go against my experience, specifically, as I recall, the claim that a= bsolute phrases=A0do not show up until students are around 16.=A0=A0 Has an= yone else read anything like this?=A0 Does anyone have any references for t= his? Is this a widespread idea? =A0 Scott Woods=0A=0A=0A To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ --0-1993323739-1233550385=:23579 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Dear List,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have read that some constructions do not appear in student writing until they are at the right age. I do not recall where I read this, but it seems to go against my experience, specifically, as I recall, the claim that absolute phrases do not show up until students are around 16. Has anyone else read anything like this? Does anyone have any references for this? Is this a widespread idea?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Woods</DIV></td></tr></table><br> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" <p> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ --0-1993323739-1233550385=:23579-- ------------------------------ End of ATEG Digest - 31 Jan 2009 to 1 Feb 2009 (#2009-25) ********************************************************* To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/