In stroke-related aphasia, which description distinguishes expressive from receptive aphasia?

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Language production versus language comprehension are the defining differences between expressive and receptive aphasia. In expressive aphasia, speech is non-fluent and effortful, with people able to understand most of what is said but having trouble forming words and sentences; repetition is often impaired as well because the production planning is disrupted. In receptive aphasia, speech tends to be fluent, but the content is often meaningless or nonsensical, and comprehension is severely impaired, so the person struggles to understand language despite the seemingly smooth speech. The option that describes expressive as non-fluent and receptive as fluent but nonsensical with impaired comprehension captures this contrast most accurately. The other descriptions mix up fluency patterns or suggest speech is absent or repetition is preserved, which doesn’t fit how these aphasias typically present.