Sentence improvement (order of adjectives) — Improve the phrase in: ‘‘He found a wooden broken chair in the room.’’ Arrange adjectives in natural English order for clarity and correctness.

Verbal Ability Sentence Improvement Difficulty: Easy
Choose an option
  • A
    wooden and broken chair
  • B
    broken wooden chair
  • C
    broken and wooden chair
  • D
    No improvement

Answer

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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