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# Injection

## Verb + injection

* have an injection
* need an injection
* an injection hurts you
* give someone an injection (**in the arm**)

## Exercise

### Verb + injection

1. I was a little embarrassed when the nurse ***gave*** me an infection in my bottom.
2. The injection didn't ***hurt*** at all. I just felt a slight *prick*.
3. Like most children, my son hates ***having*** injections.
4. I ***needed / had*** a *tetanus* injection after I was bitten by a dog on the beach last summer.