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Is the is in, why is eggs so expensive, grammatically correct? I would use are, why are eggs so expensive?
You actually hurt my brain a little.
Both are technically correct because "eggs" can function both as a quantity of egg which would be plural and as a commodity called "eggs" in which case it's singular.
Compare:
"Why is milk so expensive?" (This carton of milk is expensive) With "Why are these milks so expensive?" (Nut milks are more expensive than cow milk)
But that's not how it was worded in the cartoon.
The cartoon specifically used incorrect grammar because "MAGAts are stupid." Or the author is stupid.
You use singular verbs for things that aren't count-able. You use plural verbs for things that are. You can't "count" milk, you can only measure it, that's why you don't say "why are milks so expensive." Your example only sort of works because you've replaced "milk" with a discrete countable thing: types of milk. You're no longer talking about quantity of milk.
So you're incorrect.
I didnt say anybody would talk like that. Just that they're correct. I'm sure they did it to be insulting, but in a way it's worse on the author as they've still written gramatically correct sentence.
"Why is eggs so expensive" is as gramatically correct as "Why is oil so expensive" and the same way that "you (sigular) is" iaccurate.
Plus you can absolutely count milks as a discrete quantity depending on context, if you say go to the store and get three milks or 2 milks from the cooler, meaning is perfectly clear. You could even say "go to the store and get a milk" which while again sounds awkward is no less correct than "get a soda" or "get me a juice"
Again, the reason the author used it is because that version of pseudo southern dialect which is actually just misisipi and ebonics is what Yankess consider all southern accents to be.
But it's still gramatically accuracte.