Difficulty: Easy
Correct Answer: broken wooden chair
Explanation:
Given sentence‘‘He found a wooden broken chair in the room.’’
Concept/ApproachEnglish prefers a typical adjective order: opinion → size → age → shape → colour → origin → material → purpose. Condition/quality like ‘‘broken’’ precedes material like ‘‘wooden’’.
Option analysisA: wooden and broken chair — Order reversed; also conjunction is unnecessary.B: broken wooden chair — Correct order: condition ‘‘broken’’ before material ‘‘wooden’’.C: broken and wooden chair — ‘‘and’’ is stylistically clumsy; simple stacking is better.D: No improvement — Original adjective order is unnatural.
Final Answerbroken wooden chair
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