How we get electric shock?

How we get electric shock? 
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On all alternators, transformers neutral is earthed. Human body is conductor and when touched to the live conductor it completes its shortest root though the body and the body gets electric shock in which its nervous system, the heart, respiratory system may cease to function. 
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