How Good Is Your Grammar? Free 30-Question Grammar Test
Take the free grammar test: 30 sentences on tense, agreement, articles, prepositions, modals and punctuation. Instant score, four sub-scores, no signup.
What is the Grammar Test?
This Grammar Test checks the mechanical accuracy of your written English through thirty standalone sentences, each missing one word or phrase and each with exactly one correct answer. The items cover four areas: tense and aspect, the forms that place an action in time; agreement and pronouns, matching a subject to its verb and a pronoun to what it refers to; articles, prepositions and modals, the small function words that carry outsized meaning; and punctuation and word choice, covering comma splices and confusable pairs such as lie and lay, fewer and less, affect and effect. The four areas are interleaved through the test rather than grouped into blocks, so a run of easy questions in one area cannot carry your overall score.
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This is not a vocabulary test and not a reading test: there are no passages, no word-meaning questions and no comprehension items on an unfamiliar topic, only standalone sentences. It also does not produce a CEFR level or any single English-proficiency band — for that broader picture across grammar, vocabulary, reading and everyday workplace usage, the English Proficiency Test is the right instrument; this one isolates grammar accuracy on its own and goes no further. It says nothing about speaking or listening, and nothing about writing quality beyond mechanical correctness: a grammatically flawless sentence can still be unclear, badly organised or pitched at the wrong register for its reader, and none of that is visible here. It is a self-scored accuracy check, not an accredited certification and not equivalent to a professional proofreading or copy-editing qualification.
Answer all thirty questions and you get an overall accuracy band, from Rules Still Settling through to Near-Perfect Accuracy, plus four separate area scores, so you can see which one is holding the overall band down rather than guessing at it. There is no email address to enter and no account to create before you see that result. The test itself is untimed, though most people finish in around seven minutes, since each item is one sentence to complete rather than a passage to read first. Where a low area score surprises you, the write-up names the pattern behind it in plain language — which construction keeps catching you out — rather than leaving you with a bare number and no way to act on it.
