Which is grammatically correct (in your view)?

Question

Wooden folding chair

-or-

Folding wooden chair?

And why?

Answer 1

Wooden folding chair. It flows better

Answer 2

Both are correct but are ambiguous and can therefore conjure different meanings. For instance, Wooden folding chair is a description of a chair that is wooden and folds – two characteristics. However folding wooden chair can be construed as a folding as in “falling” wooden chair which may happen in the case of an old wooden chair. This is different than just the description of a chair. To avoid this ambiguity you can use collapsible wooden chair, if that is what is meant and wooden for the description of the chair.

Answer 3

Folding wooden chair.
I know this probably doesn't follow any exact rules (but since when does anything do so these days? :P) But it's easier to say, and I normally order it in what it does, then a descriptive word for it, and then the item.
Heck, at least I'm not French.. Then it'd be chair wooden folding. Or would, it? I'm unsure.

Answer 4

Both are correct, but it depends on what you want to say, since "folding chair" and "wooden chair" can both act as individual nouns in their own right. Do you want to say it's a folding chair made of wood, or a wooden chair which folds? So theoretically both are correct.

The reason for this is that description adjectives (such as "wooden") generally precede participial adjectives (such as "folding"). However, both of these can be followed by adjectives which can classify the noun, which always go directly in front of the noun (in this case, "chair"). Since both "wooden" and "folding" can both do this job, either of them can be directly before the noun.

However, if you don't want to classify the noun, a "folding wooden chair" is better.

Answer 5

Folding wooden chair. Because you're descibing a wooden chair that folds up, rather than a chair that is in the state of folding.

Answer 6

Wooden folding chair
is more grammatically correct because the type of chair is a folding chair which could be made of wood or plastic etc!

Answer 7

I Feel It’s The first one
“Wooden Folding Chair”
Why You Ask,
Because you need to know what it is first,
not what it can do,

Answer 8

it depends - is the term "Folding chair" a noun? I f so wooden folding chair is correct. If however chair is the noun and folding is an adjective, you can use either as wooden and folding would both be adjectives - which you can use in any order

Answer 9

Wooden folding chair - it's the chair that folds, not the wood

Answer 10

Folding, wooden chair. I dont really know why, it just flows better than wooden, folding chair.