In this article we give a complete proof in one dimension of an a priori inequality involving pseudo-differential operators: if $a$ and $b$ are symbols in $S_{1,0}^2$ such that $\left|a\right|\le b$, then for all $ϵ\>0$ we have the estimate $\parallel a^{w}u{\parallel }_s^2\le C_{ϵ}(\parallel b^{w}u{\parallel }_s^2+\parallel u{\parallel }_{s+ϵ}^2)$ for all $u$ in the Schwartz space, where $\parallel {\parallel }_t$ is the usual $H_t$ norm. We use microlocalization of levels I, II and III in the spirit of Fefferman’s SAK principle.