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The sentence is grammatically correct, and would sound perfectly natural, but if the visits have been discussed earlier, it might be better to write: In his book, the author tries to elucidate wha …

No, either He dropped it by accident. or He dropped it accidentally. but no, the verb "drop" does not imply anything about intentionality. You can drop something accidentally or on purp …

They are virtually synonymous but to my ear, "as if" connotes a counterfactual: It felt as if it were summer already, although it was still March. (Note that you write "were", not "was"). "As t …

Yes, that's typo. It should be "such as".

In fifty years of speaking English, I have never heard this expression. I have heard should always, always, but it's pretty informal.

If you stab someone, you will injure him; the blade will cut his flesh. If you stab at someone, you are trying to injure him, but you miss. (Indeed, stab as noun is sometimes used to mean attempt, as …

“Santa Maria will be [the] lighter for his carcass” means “if he were dead [his body is a carcass], the burdens on the the ship would be lighter”. Consider this headline expressing the opposite sentim …

"I will never chance to meet him in my life." and "I will never get a chance to meet this person in my life." are both grammatically correct but mean virtually the opposite things. "I will chance to m …

"Relieve" implies that there is a specific agent that cause your discomfort to recede. "Did the aspirin relieve your soreness?" Using in the passive voice suggests that you don't know what the cause …

When can I use “thy” instead of “your”? When? Pretty much anytime before about the year 1780. In all seriousness, "thy" (and its other forms like "thou", "thee", and "thine") is the equivalent …

First, only one s in “biased”. You could use the adjective “conflicted”, but that may be taken to mean emotionally conflicted rather than subject to a financial or political conflict. “Bias” might be …

“Come with” means “arrive together with”. You can say it about people (“Bob came with Carol to the party”) or objects (“The hamburger came with a side of fries”). Said about inanimate objects, the p …

Realistically, a native English speaker will treat the verb as if it were times. 3 was timesed with 4. I will times 3 and 4. What's happening here is that the word "times" is not really a v …

“Pasture” is ground cultivated to feed livestock, especially cows and horses. It typically smells, at least slightly, of their wastes and so is not particularly pleasant. “Meadow” is a grassy area wi …

“Flick” is a transitive verb. Something flicks something else: the cat flicks her tail; the bully flicked my ear. A bit of milk “splashed” out of the bowl.