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Employee Grammar & Writing Proficiency Assessment

A short grammar knowledge check paired with self-rated confidence and a ranking of trouble spots, built for L&D teams, hiring managers, and content organizations evaluating written-communication skills. The AI follow-up interview probes why respondents chose their answers and where real grammar mistakes actually happen on the job, not just what they scored.

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13 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

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

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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.
Q03
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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.
Q04
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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.
Q05
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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.
Q06
Opinion ScaleRequired

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

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not confident at allMax:Extremely confident
Q07
Rating Scale

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

Range: 1 – 5
Min:Below averageMax:Above average
Q08
RankingRequired

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
Drag to rank
Q09
Matrix

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

5 rows × 5 columns
  • Emails
  • Reports or documents
  • Presentations or slides
  • Chat/messaging tools
  • Social media or public-facing content
Columns: Never · Rarely · Sometimes · Often · Always
Q10
AI Interview

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.

Q11
Multiple Choice

What best describes your role?

  • Content or editorial
  • Marketing or communications
  • Customer support
  • Sales
  • Engineering or technical
  • Operations or administration
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice

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
Q13
Message

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.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Pairs an actual grammar knowledge quiz (subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronoun case, affect/effect) with self-rated confidence and a peer-comparison rating, so you see the gap between perceived and actual skill.
  • Includes an AI follow-up interview that asks respondents to explain their reasoning on the pronoun-case question and where grammar mistakes really happen on the job — not just a score.
  • A ranking exercise surfaces which specific grammar areas (e.g., punctuation, agreement, pronouns) challenge each respondent most, plus a matrix tracking how often mistakes are noticed over the last 30 days.
  • Segments results by role and years of professional writing experience, and auto-generates a report combining quiz accuracy, confidence, and interview responses for L&D and hiring use cases.

SurveyMonkey

Grammar Quiz Template & Survey Questions

A fielding-ready grammar quiz template aimed at general grammar knowledge testing rather than a workplace-specific proficiency assessment. It's a straightforward static quiz format, useful for quick knowledge checks but not built around employee L&D or hiring workflows. No self-rated confidence, ranking, or role-segmentation elements are part of this template.

What it does well

  • Backed by SurveyMonkey's established survey infrastructure and distribution tools
  • Simple, quick-to-deploy quiz format for basic grammar testing
  • Likely customizable within SurveyMonkey's broader template library

Where it falls short

  • Static multiple-choice quiz with no adaptive AI follow-up to probe reasoning or real-world mistake patterns
  • No mechanism to compare self-perceived confidence against actual quiz performance
  • No published methodology on how quiz difficulty or scoring is determined

SurveySparrow

Free Soft Skills Assessment Questionnaire

A broader employee soft-skills questionnaire that likely touches on communication ability generally, rather than a dedicated grammar/writing mechanics test. It's positioned for HR/L&D use cases similar to our audience, but it's not specific to grammar proficiency, self-rated confidence, or trouble-spot ranking. Best viewed as an adjacent, general-purpose assessment rather than a direct grammar-testing competitor.

What it does well

  • Covers a wider range of soft skills beyond just writing, useful for holistic employee evaluation
  • Designed for HR/L&D audiences, aligning with typical use cases for workplace assessments
  • Exportable PDF format for easy reporting and sharing

Where it falls short

  • No dedicated grammar knowledge questions (subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronoun case, etc.)
  • Static questionnaire with no adaptive AI interview to probe why respondents answered as they did
  • No ranking of specific grammar trouble spots or matrix tracking of mistake frequency over time

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