ABSTRACT
As mentioned in the previous chapter, the categories ‘verb’ and ‘adjective’ overlap in Thai and many of the words that are considered to be adjectives in English are called stative verbs when describing Thai. For simplicity, however, the term ‘adjective’ is used throughout this chapter.
Adjectives do not occur with the verb pen (‘to be’) (5.1.1); they follow the noun they modify and in noun phrases they often occur with a classifier. The most common patterns of noun phrase in which an adjective occurs are listed in 3.5.6-3.5.10.
