if the nutral is carrying a current at the time of you holding it then yes
you can be electrocuted......nutral is the preferd method for a current to
make it's return. ground or earth is a protection circuit and back at the
generation site is connected to nutral.

"blackboab" wrote in message
oups.com...
The LIVE and NEUTRAL wires are both passing current and the current is
reversing at 50 times a second so that they swap over the roles of
positive and negative.

can i get electrocuted by holding the NEUTRAL ?

a circuit only needs two wires to be complete.

so how does the third wire - ground - fit in the circuit ?