I'm expounding

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"I know," I tell him, "I've been playing these games since before you were born!" But while I'm expounding on the history and lineage of the first-person shooter game, I've been downed again.

I took my 11-year-old niece to Topshop last week and, just as I was expounding to her the merits of curves, we caught sight of a mannequin with hideously skinny and impossibly long legs.

Hare's Freedom and Reason (OUP 1963) is the main text that I am expounding in this paragraph.

The A to Z of British TV Themes - Volume 2. I was expounding the complexities of Islamic theology to a tough crowd last week - my three year old twin nieces, who kept flinging themselves off the sofa and onto me.

I was expounding my view that even the most experienced and intelligent members of staff could make irrational and expensive errors of judgement when I saw her face retreat into a questioning frown.

But there is too much remove and it is expounded in too much detail.

Mindstorms is all part of the grand plan, as it was expounded in a 1997 Lego mission statement.

I know that I should be expounding on how Kota the Triceratops, a £300 40-inch ridable robotic dinosaur just released in the UK, is a perfect storm of consumerism and technological hedonism.

Amos Oz, the prominent Israeli novelist, writes in his autobiography of growing up in a house that had books in 16 languages on its shelves.My obsession, on which I'll be expounding this week, is how languages are constructed and the differences in how they express things.To be honest, it borders on nerdiness.

Are there no more philosophies of the Id to be expounded?

And is he wise to be expounding such a thesis?