Because the public education system has failed us for years. Personally, I blame the parents. There is nothing about this sentence fragment that makes sense. It could have been, "Are there batteries?" Maybe even, "Do they have batteries?" But in no universe do those three words even create a sentence, much less one that makes sense. Please, do try again. Better yet, just go to Walmart, where you know batteries exist, and a functional vocabulary isn't the norm for their clientele in the first place.
OMG! ... Yes yes yes!...Doctor Tetanus! You've hit the nail smack dab on it's head!....😜
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