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Like any profession, medicine too has its share of black sheep (or the black sheep?)

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Default Re: Is it correct?

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Hello,

Like any profession, medicine too has its share of black sheep (or the black sheep?)

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Abusaad
Without "the", the noun "black sheep" refers to the group in general, and with "the", the noun "black sheep" refers to a specific group, so you would need to qualify it, like this,

. . . the black sheep that go into a profession just for the money.
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