How much are a dozen eggs? - English example sentence

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marafon January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 at 9:26:08 PM UTC

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How much is a dozen eggs?

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AlanF_US January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 at 11:03:50 PM UTC

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I consider both "How much are a dozen eggs?" and "How much is a dozen eggs?" correct, though I prefer the former. "How much are a dozen eggs?" means that the speaker is thinking of the eggs as separate entities. "How much is a dozen eggs?" means that the speaker is thinking of the eggs (or the total amount of money) as a unit.

If you wanted to get around this issue, you could use a modal verb, which has the same form regardless of whether the noun is singular or plural:

How much {will | would} {an egg | a dozen eggs} {be | cost}?