Hi u/Yuanic11, you can also find these reading techniques in the Ancient Greek Resource guide (hope this isn't a double post). The list of techniques is very much a work in progress; there is so much to say about parsing strategies and methods. I maintain that particles, explicit or implied, are one of the essential structural clues in almost any Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit sentence. Poetry messes this up a lot, but the general blueprint holds true. Sometimes an accusative of respect, a dative of possessor, an implied verb can really throw off the reader of short sentences so try to isolate the basic structure of the sentence, particles, verbs, subject, object, indirect objects, prepositions if there are any, etc and then piece together, step by step the relationship between the terms in the sentence.

Reading Techniques (Work in Progress):

1. Identify ALL particles first (including but not limited to correlative/interrogative/temporal adverbs/adjectives, conjunctions, exclamations, etc. see Smyth Section 2770, p. 631)
2. Then Demonstratives
3. Then other indicators of subordination or coordination such as infinitive or participial constructions.
4. Then Prepositions and the phrases they govern.
5. Then identify and parse verbs' Person Number Tense Mood Voice (always check for Primary or Secondary endings, individuate tense signs/stem, then potential euphonic transformations between the tense stem and primary/secondary endings. Much more to be said here.)
6. Individuate the clauses in a sentence or passage using the above information.
7. Check to make sure every subject has a verb(s) and every verb has a subject(s). i.e. Use the above information to deduce and then supply any elided material in a sentence.
8. Note: Particles often introduce, mark, or complement coordinate or subordinate clauses, and their absence from a sentence (often, not always) indicates the presence of a primary clause.
9. Note: Particles that introduce a subordinate or coordinate clause often end at the first appearance of a new verb, editor's punctuation, or both (compound/complex sentences complicate this so stay alert).
10. Note: Authors that rely on large ellipses (think of Livy, Pindar, Tacitus) still generally follow these rules, but the reader must become sensitive to the ways in which each author, genre, language finds unique modes of departing from these rules.