The context of a piece of writing is the 1. environment in which it was written 2. denotative meaning of its language 3. authors ideas about a specific topic 4. central idea and how it is developed.

4. context is refering to its contents. What is within the article. There's no reading into it it is simply what the piece is about the central idea of it and how they developed that idea within the wrtitings.

At first, Mitchell does not like Paul because he thinks Paul acts like he is better than everyone else. Then, Mitchell appreciates that Paul takes the blame for Ghost Wind's injury. He tells Paul that if his father had known it was him, he would have been in a lot of trouble. Mitchell is grateful, and he begins to respect Paul more. Paul respects Mitchell more because he was willing to take the blame.

sing because that is what they are doing in the sentence

explanation:

the simple predicate is the main verb in the predicate that tells what the subject does. example: my father fixed the dryer. read each sentence. draw a line under the complete predicate.