Employee Grammar & Writing Proficiency Assessment

Welcome! This is a quick grammar and writing skills check — a mix of short quiz questions and questions about your own habits and confidence. Your responses are completely confidential and anonymized. Answer honestly; there's no need to look anything up. About 6-8 minutes.

Which sentence uses subject-verb agreement correctly?

• The team of engineers were reviewing the report.
• The team of engineers was reviewing the report.
• The team of engineers are reviewing the report.
• The team of engineers is being reviewed the report.

Which sentence uses the apostrophe correctly?

• Its going to rain before the client's arrive.
• It's going to rain before the clients' arrive.
• It's going to rain before the clients arrive.
• Its going to rain before the clients arrive.

Which sentence uses the correct pronoun case?

• The manager gave the assignment to Jordan and I.
• The manager gave the assignment to Jordan and me.
• The manager gave the assignment to I and Jordan.
• The manager gave the assignment to myself and Jordan.

Which sentence correctly distinguishes 'affect' and 'effect'?

• The new policy will effect how we onboard clients, and the affect has already been noticed.
• The new policy will affect how we onboard clients, and the effect has already been noticed.
• The new policy will affect how we onboard clients, and the affect has already been noticed.
• The new policy will effect how we onboard clients, and the effect has already been noticed.

How confident are you in your grammar and writing skills for professional communication?

Compared to your coworkers, how would you rate your own grammar skills?

Rank these grammar areas from the one that challenges you most to the one that challenges you least.

1. Subject-verb agreement
2. Punctuation and comma usage
3. Apostrophes and possessives
4. Pronoun usage
5. Commonly confused words (its/it's, affect/effect, etc.)
6. Run-on sentences and fragments

In the last 30 days, how often have you noticed grammar mistakes (yours or others') in each of these?

Ask the respondent to explain their reasoning on the pronoun-case quiz question they just answered — why they chose that option and whether they knew the rule or guessed. Then probe which grammar rule trips them up most often in real work, asking for a specific recent example of a mistake they or a colleague made. If they claim they never make grammar mistakes, ask about the last time someone edited or corrected their writing and what the correction was.

What best describes your role?

• Content or editorial
• Marketing or communications
• Customer support
• Sales
• Engineering or technical
• Operations or administration
• Prefer not to say

How many years of professional writing experience do you have (emails, reports, documentation, etc.)?

• Less than 1 year
• 1-3 years
• 4-9 years
• 10+ years
• Prefer not to say

All done — thank you! Your quiz answers and comments will be combined with others to shape targeted grammar and writing training, not to single out any individual.