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I wanted to tell my friend that I had skills in persuading people. I stood for 5 minutes just thinking whether I should say "persuading skills", "persuasive skills", or "persuasion skills". Also, "manipulative skills, manipulation skills, manipulating skills"? To decide which one to use, I went searching online dictionaries, and it just created further confusion.

I have noticed that when the word has no verb form or its verb form is not very popular, we use its adjectival form before the word skill such as
Political skill / athletic skill / artistic skill /mathematical skill / technical skill / tactical skill / social skill

When the word has the gerund as a noun, then it is the word that precedes skill such as
reading skill / writing skill / hunting skill / shooting skill / wrestling skill / fishing skill

However, when the case is neither of those, confusion arises. In the following cases, how would you decide which one to use?

1. Persuading skill / persuasion skill / persuasive skill

2. Manipulating skill / manipulation skill / manipulative skill

3. Negotiating skill / negotiation skill / ..

4. Interpretive skill / interpretation skill

5. Investigating skill / investigative skill / investigation skill

6. Navigating skill / navigation skill / navigational skill?

7. Performing skill / performance skill

I wanted to tell my friend that I had skills in persuading people. I stood for 5 minutes just thinking whether I should say "persuading skills", "persuasive skills", or "persuasion skills". Also, "manipulative skills, manipulation skills, manipulating skills"? To decide which one to use, I went searching online dictionaries, and it just created further confusion.

I have noticed that when the word has no verb form or its verb form is not very popular, we use its adjectival form before the word skill such as
Political skill / athletic skill / artistic skill /mathematical skill / technical skill / tactical skill / social skill

When the word has the gerund as a noun, then it is the word that precedes skill such as
reading skill / writing skill / hunting skill / shooting skill / wrestling skill / fishing skill

However, when the case is neither of those, confusion arises. In the following cases, how would you decide which one to use?

1. Persuading skill / persuasion skill / persuasive skill

2. Manipulating skill / manipulation skill / manipulative skill

3. Negotiating skill / negotiation skill / ..

4. Interpretive skill / interpretation skill

5. Investigating skill / investigation skill / investigative skill

6. Navigating skill / navigation skill / navigational skill?

7. Performing skill / performance skill

I wanted to tell my friend that I had skills in persuading people. I stood for 5 minutes just thinking whether I should say "persuading skills", "persuasive skills", or "persuasion skills". Also, "manipulative skills, manipulation skills, manipulating skills"? To decide which one to use, I went searching online dictionaries, and it just created further confusion.

So my two-part question is as follows

1- What is the deciding factor for which form of a word you choose before the word "skill" or "ability" and other nouns, for instance we say "Negotiating skills Not negotiation skills" or "Communication skills Not communicative skills" although you could say, according to many dictionaries, "Communicative skills"

2- If part one is answered, then could you tell me how this deciding factor could answer which form of a word should be used in the following:

A. persuasive / persuading / persuasion skills

B. problem-solution skills / problem-solving skills

C. patience skills / patient skills"

If this question is better posed at ELU, please post a comment.

I wanted to tell my friend that I had skills in persuading people. I stood for 5 minutes just thinking whether I should say "persuading skills", "persuasive skills", or "persuasion skills". Also, "manipulative skills, manipulation skills, manipulating skills"? To decide which one to use, I went searching online dictionaries, and it just created further confusion.

I have noticed that when the word has no verb form or its verb form is not very popular, we use its adjectival form before the word skill such as
Political skill / athletic skill / artistic skill /mathematical skill / technical skill / tactical skill / social skill

When the word has the gerund as a noun, then it is the word that precedes skill such as
reading skill / writing skill / hunting skill / shooting skill / wrestling skill / fishing skill

However, when the case is neither of those, confusion arises. In the following cases, how would you decide which one to use?

1. Persuading skill / persuasion skill / persuasive skill

2. Manipulating skill / manipulation skill / manipulative skill

3. Negotiating skill / negotiation skill / ..

4. Interpretive skill / interpretation skill

5. Investigating skill / investigative skill / investigation skill

6. Navigating skill / navigation skill / navigational skill?

7. Performing skill / performance skill

I wanted to tell my friend that I had skills in persuading people. I stood for 5 minutes just thinking whether I should say "persuading skills", "persuasive skills", or "persuasion skills". To decide which one to use, I went searching online dictionaries, and it just created further confusion.

So my two-part question is as follows

1- What is the deciding factor for which form of a word you choose before the word "skill" or "ability" and other nouns, for instance we say "Negotiating skills Not negotiation skills" or "Communication skills Not communicative skills" although you could say, according to many dictionaries, "Communicative skills"

2- If part one is answered, then could you tell me how this deciding factor could answer which form of a word should be used in the following:

A. persuasive / persuading / persuasion skills

B. problem-solution skills / problem-solving skills

C. patience skills / patient skills"

If this question is better posed at ELU, please post a comment.

I wanted to tell my friend that I had skills in persuading people. I stood for 5 minutes just thinking whether I should say "persuading skills", "persuasive skills", or "persuasion skills". Also, "manipulative skills, manipulation skills, manipulating skills"? To decide which one to use, I went searching online dictionaries, and it just created further confusion.

So my two-part question is as follows

1- What is the deciding factor for which form of a word you choose before the word "skill" or "ability" and other nouns, for instance we say "Negotiating skills Not negotiation skills" or "Communication skills Not communicative skills" although you could say, according to many dictionaries, "Communicative skills"

2- If part one is answered, then could you tell me how this deciding factor could answer which form of a word should be used in the following:

A. persuasive / persuading / persuasion skills

B. problem-solution skills / problem-solving skills

C. patience skills / patient skills"

If this question is better posed at ELU, please post a comment.