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| Dec 4, 2015 at 12:37 | comment | added | haha | @GhaithAlrestom I didn't say you can use whatever you want. I said it depends on what you mean by that. By the way " persuasion skill" is more common if you google it. And if there are some "adjective + skill " that is because either there is no appropriate noun for skill or in that way it make better sense. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | haha | @GhaithAlrestom "you didn't tell me how you came to these answers." I just looked them up in "Oxford and Longman Collocations". | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 2:38 | comment | added | herisson | "I have persuasion skill" doesn't sound right to me. Google Ngrams suggests that "persuasion skill" is very rarely used compared to "skills of persuasion." | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 2:34 | comment | added | Ghaith Alrestom | Thank you for answering, but you didn't tell me how you came to these answers. Regarding "persuasion", why is "persuasive skills" more common? And according to this logic, why should we say "negotiating skills"? I have skill in negotiating with people, therefore I have negotiation skills, right? I have skill in manipulating people, then I should say I have manipulation skills? And also why would we choose the adjective form of a word before skill such as analytical, artistic? | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 1:03 | history | answered | haha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |