In "I hate it when you do that," some people classify "when you do that" as an adverbial clause, while others classify "when you do that" as a noun clause that explains the formal object "it."
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I hate it when you do that.
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Re: I hate it when you do that.
Personally I favour the noun clause interprepation since it makes 'it' rather more meaningful, but that is simply a preference. The construction is fundamentally ambiguous!