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@very-rusty said
Are you sure? I am trying to improve my Engerlish and I don't want you to send me down the wrong path. Is just doesn't seem to fit "Are" sounds better to me.

Is you posting this, according to you, an example of "gaslighting"? Still looks like it should be an "Are"

-VR
Perhaps he could also say: Is your posting this...

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@Torunn

I still think Are you posting this sounds better. 🙂 Even if it isn't proper English.

-VR

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@torunn said
Perhaps he could also say: Is your posting this...
Yes: "you posting this" and "your posting this" are both noun phrases that work in a sentence like this. Indeed this is also a noun phrase: [verb: is...] "the fact that you took it upon yourself to just go ahead and post this without being specific about what it actually was"... and so on.

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@fmf said
Yes: "you posting this" and "your posting this" are both noun phrases that work in a sentence like this. Indeed this is also a noun phrase: [verb: is...] "the fact that you took it upon yourself to just go ahead and post this with being specific about what it actually was"... and so on.
LOL@ fmf....Does this upset you?

-VR

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@very-rusty said
LOL@ fmf....Does this upset you?
Of course not. If you don't find it interesting, why did you ask me about it?

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@fmf said
Of course not. If you don't find it interesting, why did you ask me about it?
I still have an obsession with "Are" and "Is" usage. What am I to do?

Is your obsession chasing people around the forums? We had a dog like that once! 🙂

-VR

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@very-rusty said
Are you sure? I am trying to improve my Engerlish and I don't want you to send me down the wrong path. Is just doesn't seem to fit "Are" sounds better to me.

Is you posting this, according to you, an example of "gaslighting"? Still looks like it should be an "Are"

-VR
Is it is or is it are?
How about this, keep the "is" and remove the first "you".
"Is posting this, according to you.."

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@kilroy70 said
Is it is or is it are?
How about this, keep the "is" and remove the first "you".
"Is posting this, according to you.."
That'd be perfectly fine. But one doesn't have to remove it. I am, in one of my walks of life, literally paid by the word, so loquaciousness is ingrained into me.

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@fmf said
Compare what I wrote to this:

"Are you posting this, according to you, as an example of "gaslighting"?"

This is correct.

"Is you posting this, according to you, an example of "gaslighting"?"

This is also correct but the sentence construction is not the same.
I was taught that most of the time if singular choose the word with an "S" in it. Also removing words clarifies it.

"Is you posting this, according to you, as an example of "gaslighting"?"

Simplify to root words esp those pertaining to the word in question so:
Are an example, which doesn't sound right.
Is an example, sounds correct.
But your mid sentence addition, "according to you" would be better at the beginning of the sentence IMO. Also the word "as" in your sentence is redundantly cluttering. The whole sentence is clumsy.



"Is you posting this, according to you, as an example of "gaslighting"?"
According to you, posting this ​is an example of gaslighting?
Better but not great.
To be honest, I thought the word "as" made it awkward.

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@gambrel said
To be honest, I thought the word "as" made it awkward.
When did I use the word "as"?

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Is you posting this, according to you, an example of "gaslighting"?

Are you posting this, according to you, as an example of "gaslighting"?

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@fmf said
Is you posting this, according to you, an example of "gaslighting"?

Are you posting this, according to you, as an example of "gaslighting"?
Did you "Alert" or send "Feedback"? 😉

-VR

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@fmf said
When did I use the word "as"?
Checking your OP, you didn't, my auto correct may have added it.
My apologies

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@fmf said
Is you posting this, according to you, an example of "gaslighting"?

Are you posting this, according to you, as an example of "gaslighting"?
God
Now I'm gaslighting you? 😆
How about
Are you gaslighting in your post?

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