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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Brookline, MA) A new study led by language-learning platform Preply found that Americans scored an average of 25% on a school-level grammar quiz, while 52% of respondents said they feel embarrassed when they make grammar mistakes.

The study surveyed more than 1,500 Americans and tested knowledge of grammar rules typically taught in school, including apostrophes, pronouns, punctuation and sentence agreement. Researchers found notable differences in performance across the country, with some states scoring higher than others.

Pennsylvania ranked as the strongest-performing state, with an average accuracy of 30.4% across all questions. Respondents in the Keystone State performed most consistently in areas such as sentence structure and object pronouns.

Accoridng to a release from Preply, here is the top ten states in average accuracy for this new grammar study that they led:

Rank	State	Average accuracy
1	Pennsylvania	30.4%
2	Virginia	30.0%
3	Washington	29.9%
4	Maryland	28.5%
5	Florida	27.6%
6	New York	26.5%
7	Connecticut	25.4%
8	California	25.0%
9	Ohio	24.5%
10	New Jersey	23.9%