Carry on with your work until

dwni1

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For instance, I tell a friend of mine to continue doing gardening by using a a lawnmower.
Is this sentence okay?
1 Carry on with the gardening until you finish with the grass.
2 Carry on with the gardening until you have finished with the grass.
Does the tipe of the verb such as transitive, intransitive and phrasal have anything to do with until?
Can transitive, intransitive and phrasal verbs precede and follow until?
 
I think "until" can happily get along with any verb.
 
Are the sentences above okay?
 
No. Say Carry on with the gardening until you've finished mowing the lawn.
 
Say Carry on with the gardening until you've finished mowing the lawn.
Or: Carry on (with the gardening) until you've finished (mowing) the lawn.
Carry on (with the gardening) until you finish (mowing) the lawn.

I prefer the first, though the present perfect is not essential.
In the context you gave, the parts I have put in brackets can be omitted.
 
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