Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

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Would you tell me what's wrong with the use of Comprehensive Diffculties? Thank you.
 

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Would you tell me what's wrong with the use of Comprehensive Diffculties? Thank you.
'Comprehensive' means including/covering virtually everything.'Comprehensive difficulties' is therefore not a very likely collocation. In another thread, in which your 'comprehensive' was changed to 'comprhension', the reason was that your difficulties were in understanding - in comprehension.
 

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Thank you, 5jj. I made the mistake because I thought comprehensive was the adjective of comprehension.
 

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The adjective from "comprehension" is "comprehensible".
 

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The adjective from "comprehension" is "comprehensible".
Yes, but this adjective still doesn't work here. "Comprehensible difficulties" are difficulties that can be understood, and not comprehension difficulties.
 

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Yes, but this adjective still doesn't work here. "Comprehensible difficulties" are difficulties that can be understood, and not comprehension difficulties.


No, I wasn't trying to suggest that "comprehensible" should have been used, but the OP thought that the adjective from "comprehension" was "comprehensive". I was simply correcting that assumption.

The title should indeed be "Comprehension Difficulties".
 

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I see. The two words have different meaning.
Thank you to you all.
 
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