In all word clearing all Grammatical Words and small words should be looked up in a simple grammar textbook.
Very few dictionaries have full definitions for such words and they have no examples.
Words like “a” “the” “and” are really parts of language construction and are more complex than they at first appear.
A Word Clearing Auditor should have a simple grammar book to hand as well as dictionaries.
The best Grammar textbooks are those compiled for persons foreign to a language, like immigrants. These do not contain the supposition that the student is already an English professor.
Lots of examples is the real test of a good grammar.
When doing the Study Tapes or Student Hat lack of a simple grammar textbook can really throw the student off..
Those “simple” words can be the huge rocks that stand on the highway to becoming a word clear.
So a Grammar is needed.
If a student is very deficient (lacking) in grammar it is best to make him do a whole simple grammar text first before he begins to get into just words. The words won’t hang together for him.
It takes less time to do a short textbook in Grammar than it does to struggle with grammar all the way through.
Grammar can look like a ghastly subject until one really looks at it. Then it’s easy.