John 11:35 Jesus wept.
2. Place the direct object after the verb, separated by a vertical line above the horizontal line.
John 3:14 Moses lifted up the snake.
3. If the verb takes two objects:
a. an object of person and an object of thing:
John 14:26 He will teach you all things.
b. an object with an accusative predicate (or object complement):
John 15:15 I have called you friends.
4. Place the predicate nominative or predicate adjective after a linking verb (copulative) with a backslash line.
1John 4:8 God is love.
5. Place an appositive with the equal sign.
Gal 5:2 I, Paul, say.
6. Disconnect vocatives and exclamations from main diagram line.
John 17:1 Father, the hour has come.
Rom 9:5 God [be] blessed. Amen.
7. If there are two subjects and/or two verbs:
| Acts 15:32 Judas and Silas exhorted and strengthened the brothers. |
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd.
2. Place a genitive modifier under the word it modifies with a diagonal line.
2Cor 5:14 The love of Christ compels us.
3. Place an adverb under the verb directly. This includes an interrogative pronoun that functions as an adverb.
Rev 3:11 I am coming soon.
Rom 9:20 Why did you make me this way?
4. Place an adverbial dative (including indirect object) under the verb with a diagonal line.
Mark 1:17 Jesus said to them.
Luke 5:8 Simon Peter fell down at the knees of Jesus.
5. Place an adverbial prepositional phrase under the verb with a diagonal line.
Mark 4:2 He was teaching them in parables.
| Rom 4:8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord would never count. |
2. Place an adverbial subordinate clause under the main verb on a diagonal line.
1John 3:2 We shall see him just as he is.
3. If the clause is substantival (it functions as a subject or object), place it on a stilt.
| Gal 3:11 That no one is justified by law before God is clear.
(It is clear that no one is justified by law before God) |
4. If the clause is epexegetical (explicative, i.e., it explains or clarifies):
| Acts 9:20 He was proclaiming Jesus in the synagogue, that He is the Son of God. |
5. Conjunctions: place a coordinating conjunction above and before the main clause, and a subordinating conjunction under the main clause.
| Gal 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. |
6. Correlative (paired) conjunctions:
| Matt 9:37 On the one hand, the harvest is plentiful, on the other, the laborers are few.
(The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.) |
Phil 1:21 For me, to live is Christ.
Gal 3:2 I only want to learn this from you.
| Rom 4:18 Who, against hope, believed on the basis of hope, with the result that he became the father of many nations. |
2. If the infinitive is attributive or adverbial, place it under the word it modifies. No stilt is necessary.
| Matt 3:14 I have need to be baptized by you.
(I need to be baptized by you.) |
| 1Th 1:6-7 You became imitators of us, as a result you became an example to all. |
John 3:6 That which is born from the flesh is flesh.
2. If the participle is attributive, place it under the word it modifies.
John 4:10 He would give to you living water.
3. If the participle is adverbial, place it under the verb it modifies with a vertical line.
| John 9:25 Being blind, now I see.
(Although I was blind, now I see.) |
4. If the participle is supplementary (complimentary), place it on a stilt.
Col 1:9 We do not cease praying for you.
Acts 6:14 We have heard him saying.
5. Genitive Absolute construction: place it under the verb (for all genitive absolutes are adverbial participles). Use a dashed line to show that the construction is absolute.
| Mark 9:28 After he entered into the house, his disciples began asking him. |
6. Periphrastic construction:
Luke 11:14 He was casting out a demon.
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