Class 7 English Grammar Worksheet: A Crow in the House (MH Board Solved)

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Grammar worksheet for class 7 MH board  English Balbharti: A Crow in The House

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Are you a Class 7 Maharashtra Board student looking to practice your English grammar? You are in the right place!
The chapter "A Crow in the House" from your English Balbharati textbook is full of excellent grammar concepts. To help you prepare for your exams, I have created this completely free grammar worksheet. It contains 25 "Do as Directed" questions based on textual sentences, covering topics like Voice, Tenses, question tags, and clauses.
Try to solve the 25 questions on your own first in a notebook, and then scroll down to check the Answer Key at the bottom!

Do as directed. (Practice Questions)


  1. The young crow had fallen from its nest. (Identify the tense.)
  2. The young crow was fluttering about on the road in danger of being crushed by a cart or a tonga. (Make a WH question beginning with why.)
  3. Grandfather and I did our best to bring it around. (Add a question tag.)
  4. He was offered his freedom. (Change the voice.)
  5. We were not sure that he was male, but we called him Caesar. (Rewrite using 'though' instead of 'but'.)
  6. Caesar gave us no peace until he had been given his small bowl of meat. (Make affirmative using 'only when'.)
  7. He would hop across a table to empty a matchbox of its contents. (Rewrite using 'used to'.)
  8. Can't you keep him in a cage? (Make assertive using should.)
  9. In time, Caesar learnt to talk a little as ravens sometimes do. (Underline the infinitive.)
  10. I had also taught him to sit on my arm (Change the voice.)
  11. I had also taught him to sit on my arm. (Underline the infinitive.)
  12. Aunt Mabel never was a success with the pets. (Make affirmative.)
  13. Caesar was especially fond of toothbrushes and made a collection of them. (Make a question with why.)
  14. Caesar made a collection of toothbrushes on top of the cupboard in my room. (Make a WH question to get the underlined part as the answer.)
  15. Toothbrush sales went up that year. So did Grandmother's blood pressure. (Combine the sentences using as well as.)
  16. Clothes pegs fascinated him. (Change the voice.)
  17. It was Caesar's gardening activities that finally led him to his disaster. (Rewrite the sentence, removing that.)
  18. I carried the unfortunate bird home and washed and bandaged his leg. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with 'After carrying...')
  19. One morning, I found him dead on the sofa. (Change the voice.)
  20. I dug a shallow grave in the garden. (Rewrite beginning with 'A shallow grave...')
  21. He would sit for hours outside the window. (Rewrite using the modal auxiliary of past ability.)
  22. He grew weaker day by day. (Make negative.)
  23. We bandaged his leg as best as we could. (Change into superlative degree.)
  24. I dug a shallow grave in the garden and buried him there. (Rewrite beginning with 'After digging...')
  25. I dug a shallow grave in the garden and buried him there. (Mention the parts of speech of the underlined words.)


 Answer Key 

  1. Perfect past tense
  2. Why was the young crow fluttering?
  3. Grandfather and I did our best to bring it around, didn't we?
  4. They offered him his freedom.
  5. Though we were not sure that he was a male, we called him Caesar.
  6. Caesar gave us peace only when he had been given his bowl of meat.
  7. He used to hop across a table to empty a matchbox of its contents.
  8. You should keep him in a cage? (Make assertive using should.)
  9. In time Caesar learnt to talk a little as ravens sometimes do.
  10. He had also been taught to sit on my shoulder. (by me)
  11. I had also taught him to sit on my arm.
  12. Aunt Mabel was hardly ever a success with the pets.  Or   Aunt Mabel always failed with the pets. 
  13. Why did Caesar make a collection of toothbrushes?
  14. Where did Caesar make a collection of toothbrushes?
  15. Toothbrush sales as well as grandmother's blood pressure went up that year.
  16. He was fascinated by clothes pegs. 
  17.  Caesar's gardening activities finally led him to his disaster.
  18. After carrying the unfortunate bird home, I washed and bandaged his leg. 
  19. One morning he was found dead on the sofa. (by me)
  20.  A shallow grave was dug in the garden by me.

  21. He used to sit for hours outside the window.

  22. He could not grow stronger as days passed.

  23. We bandaged his leg to the best of our ability.

  24. After digging a shallow grave in the garden, I buried him there.


  • Shallow- adjective
  • Garden-noun
  • Him- pronoun
  • There- adverb

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Written by 

- Arati Agrawal

- English Teacher 

(CBSE & Maharashtra Board)

The author of

Communication Skills in English For Engineers and Technologists


Location: Maharashtra, India

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