Is the necessary in this sentence? I always have this problem of ‘the’. I’d really appreciate it if you could give me a tip on this?
Popular people sometimes have to laugh at (the) things they don’t find very funny and do (the) things they don’t particularly want to.
It would be natural to omit "the" in both places.
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