I wonder if it has to do with the animacy hierarchy:  humans > domestic animals > mammals > non-mammals > inanimates.  Emotion verbs like "hate" and "love" license a human object more strongly than do cognitive verbs like "know"?

Herb  


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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Johanna Rubba
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Subject: Re: The use of "that"
 
"That" can be omitted when it precedes a clause that is the direct  
object of the verb, but not in other cases -- except for the verb  
"hate", it seems -- for me, the "hate" example without "that" is  
ungrammatical. Hmm.

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Ph. D.
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English Dept.
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