Help with a Sentence Diagram....

Robert Pavich

Ok...I'm horrible at English grammar let alone Greek, but I'm practicing.... [:D]

 

I'm diagramming James 3:1, a very short sentence for practice...and I'm stuck.

 

I THINK I've gotten the subject, verb, and direct object...and modifiers...

 

Can someone take a look and steer me in the right direction for what I've already done...

AND

Give me some help on the rest of the sentence?

 

Jack Caviness

Robert

 

 ἀδελφοί μου functions as a vocative, an address to the persons as an attention getter. The subject of the sentence is contained within the 2nd person plural verb and is understood to be you. διδάσκαλοι then becomes the predicate nominative.

I would diagram it something like this. Someone else may put the participle a bit differently (I might also if I thought about it for a while). I believe the participle in this case is causal. "Do not become many teachers because…"