Can You Say Expound on?
Expound Means to Set Forth, Declare, State in Detail (Doctrines, Ideas, Principles; Formerly, with Wider Application); to Explain, Interpret (What Is Difficult...
Expound means to set forth, declare, state in detail (doctrines, ideas, principles; formerly, with wider application); To explain, interpret (what is difficult or obscure) (OED). The verb is not used with 'on', 'upon' or 'about'. For example, "Our author proceeds to expound his own analysis."
Do you expound on something?
When you expound, you explain or provide details. Expound came into English from a 14th-century French word espondre meaning "to elaborate" or "put forth." Often when you expound something you are clarifying or giving the particulars.
How do you use expound in a sentence?
- During his graduation speech, Thad will expound his hopes and prayers for his graduating class.
- Tonight, the president will expound the nation's preparedness for the Ebola virus.
- The purpose of the author's second book is to expound the philosophical theories he proposed in his first work.
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