The Phrase Structure Rules of Thai Sentences

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The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the Thai sentence structure used in Thai text books of secondary schools and Thai academic texts;2) compare the result of Thai Ps- rules in Thai text book and academic texts. The research tools were Thai grammar textbooks in secondary 3 approved by the Thai Minister Education and theThai academic article published in “พินิจไทย” No. 3 Jan 2004, written by Amara Prasitrathasin. The research found that: 1) the sentences in Thai articles were written by different kinds of sentence structures and they were transformed to a simple sentence by deleting subject, object or relative pronoun;2) some structuresin the Thai article sometimes tried to use a simple sentence which was modified from a compound sentence; 3) the kind of sentence structure inthe Thai article is similar to English sentence structure. It can show that the English language had an influent on Thai academic writing.