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เพื่อน　มี　ไข้　อาจจะ　ติด　หวัด　จาก　ฉัน　ค่ะ

เพื่อน　มี　ไข้　อาจจะ　ติด　หวัด　จาก　ฉัน　ค่ะ
My friend has a fever; she might have caught a cold from me.
From Lesson 71:Possibility (อาจจะ)·Thai

Questions & Answers about เพื่อน　มี　ไข้　อาจจะ　ติด　หวัด　จาก　ฉัน　ค่ะ

Where exactly does อาจจะ go in a sentence with multiple verbs like this one?
อาจจะ (might/maybe) is placed directly before the main verb of the action you are making a guess about. In this sentence, the speaker isn't guessing if the friend has a fever (that's a fact: เพื่อนมีไข้), but they are guessing about how she got the cold. So, อาจจะ goes right before ติด (catch).
Why is the word ติด used here for catching a cold? I've seen it mean stuck in other lessons.
That's right, ติด usually means attached or stuck (like in a traffic jam). In Thai, catching an illness is thought of as the sickness attaching to you. You can use ติด whenever you talk about catching a contagious disease.
What is the difference between using ติดหวัด and เป็นหวัด?
You use เป็นหวัด (literally to be a cold) to simply say someone has a cold. You use ติดหวัด (literally attached cold) when you want to focus on the action of catching the cold, especially when mentioning who you caught it from, like จากฉัน (from me) in this sentence.
Why isn't there a word for she in the second part of the sentence before อาจจะ?
Thai often drops pronouns when it's obvious who is doing the action. Since the first part of the sentence establishes that the friend (เพื่อน) is the topic, you don't need to add a word like เขา (he/she) before the second verb phrase.

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