Learn English – You may get shocked vs you may get an electrical shock

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Which one of the following sentences sound more natural to you:

  • Don’t touch the wire! You may get shocked.

  • Don’t touch the wire! You may get an electrical shock.

For me both sound natural and mean the same.

Best Answer

"You may get shocked" is a perfectly natural way to express this. Your second variant:

You may get an electrical shock.

Would be more natural if you used "electric" in place of "electrical." Here are the dictionary definitions for those two words (from Oxford Dictionaries):

electric
Of, worked by, charged with, or producing electricity:
"an electric cooker"

electrical
Concerned with, operating by, or producing electricity:
"electrical appliances"

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