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What does THAT mean here?
Today humanity is in the richest state that it has ever been in.
That could be rewritten to illuminate the role that plays:
Today humanity is in the richest state in which it has ever been.
that it ...
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What does THAT mean here?
No, you cannot switch 'that' to 'than' in this example. We use 'than' in comparisons with a comparative adjective, such as richer:
Today, humanity is in a richer state than it has ever been in.
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Are "I like when" and "I like it when" both grammatically correct, and if so, are they synonymous?
Why don't airlines like when one intentionally misses a flight to save money?
The verb like is generally transitive in standard English. It requires an object. To make it grammatical, it needs it.
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It will be awesome/interesting/nice, etc. if you can join us. - is "it" a dummy it?
While it is grammatically correct to use both versions, the connotation, or "feelings" if you will associated to them do slightly differ. Technically they still bear the same meaning but ...
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It will be awesome/interesting/nice, etc. if you can join us. - is "it" a dummy it?
It's an anticipatory "it", as "it" could be replaced with "you joining us". It's not a dummy as it does actually refer to something specific. The second is the same, ...
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possessive, object and reflexive pronouns
For clarity, I'll illustrate the differences between the three phrases you have quoted by means of a concrete example. Namely: the speaker [in all 3 phrases] is named Alice, and she's referring to ...
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Is it correct to say 'someone other than they two'?
I would recommend the demonstrative pronoun those or these:
someone other than those two
These are closer than those, physically or in your mind. “These two” implies that they are the same people ...
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Is it correct to say 'someone other than they two'?
Another idiomatic version would be someone other than them although in many prescriptive grammars that would be flagged as incorrect and it would be asserted that a subject-case (nominative) is ...
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They have a passport/passports - the same in meaning?
I find (2) idiomatic (assumed to mean that they have one each) and (1) not. (I don't know about other countries, but the UK used to allow children to be included on a parent's passport, so they have a ...
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We/every one of us will earn 1 billion dollars - are they the same?
No, it doesn't mean that.
You may want to say "Each of us will earn one billion dollars", or even better,
"We will earn one billion dollars each."
Putting "each" at the ...
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