insist on you/your being on time

Marika33

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Are all of these correct or some of them unnatural? If all are correct, do they mean the same thing?

1. I insist on you being on time.
2. I insist on your being on time.
3. I insist (that) you be on time.
 

Tarheel

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The third one is okay only with "that".

They all mean the same thing.
 

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The second sentence is more formal.
 
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