Give comments to an administrative trainee in revolutionary school (8)
I believe the answer is:
annotate
'administrative trainee in revolutionary school' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'give comments to an' is the wordplay.
'give comments' becomes 'notate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'notate' after 'an' is 'ANNOTATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for annotate that I've seen before include "Add notes to (text)" , "Supply explanatory notes" , "Add explanatory comments" , "Make notes upon" , "Add explanations and comments to (a text)" .)