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Argo80 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

get a shot

Hi,
What is more common to ask? Did you get a shot of X? Or
Were you vaccinated with X?
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Could you give an example of what "X" would be?

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Could you give an example of what "X" would be?
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Prevnar, Varivax, Menjugate.
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Both your sentences seem OK to me then. "get a shot of" is more informal. Your sentences seem to be asking about what happened on a specific occasion (rather than asking whether the person has been vaccinated at any time in the past). Of course, ordinary people often don't know the technical names of vaccines. In everyday conversation it would be more common to ask "Have you been vaccinated agains
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You mean if I say" Have you ever been vaccinated with Prevnar?" my sentence sounds wrong?
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Argo80 You mean if I say" Have you ever been vaccinated with Prevnar?" my sentence sounds wrong?
No, that's fine too.

(Though if you asked the average ordinary person, I think the answer would usually be "I don't know"!)
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You are not average GPY. Thank you for the response and have a wonderful night. Emotion: smile
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Argo80Did you get a shot of X? Or Were you vaccinated with X?
Neither. In American English, at least, it's almost always like this:

Did you get the flu shot?
Did you get the shingles shot?
Did you get the tuberculosis shot?
Did you get the pneumonia shot?
Did you get the measles shot?

CJ
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I usually hear a.
eg Did you get a flu shot?
eg Did you get a shingles shot?

Clive
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CliveI usually hear a.eg Did you get a flu shot?eg Did you get a shingles shot?Clive
I agree, but the question, as far as I can see, is about how to form a sentence using the actual name of the vaccine, not the name of the disease.
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By the way, on the subject, in the UK it is quite common to use the word "jab": "flu jab", "tetanus jab", etc.

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