Please help me to understand this sentence, Thanks!
Tim ______ a conference next week so he can't see you until the week after.
A. shall attend
B. is attending
C. will attend
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The correct is B, but I don't really understand this sentence.

When this conversation is continuing, Tim have gone the conference which will finish next week, or Tim don't go to the conference which will start next week, but he is preparing it, so he don't have any time to meet the man.

PS: I have a confusion about using punctuation mark in long sentence, so if you can teach me which position in my question sentence I should use ',' or '.', I will be grateful to you! Thanks!

Question

Please help me to understand this sentence, Thanks!
Tim ______ a conference next week so he can't see you until the week after.
A. shall attend 
B. is attending 
C. will attend 
--------------------------------------------

The correct is B, but I don't really understand this sentence.

When this conversation is continuing, Tim have gone the conference which will finish next week, or Tim don't go to the conference which will start  next week, but he is preparing it, so he don't have any time to meet the man.

PS: I have a confusion about using punctuation mark in long sentence, so if you can teach me which position in my question sentence I should use ',' or '.', I will be grateful to you! Thanks!

Answer

This sentence means: "Tim is going to go to a conference next week, so he won't be able to see you  until the weekend."

A comma(",") signifies a pause. If you are listing things, the last comma is followed by an "and".
A period(".") signified an end to a sentence.

Examples:
"I'm not sure who I am, or who you are, or what we are doing here."
"I need to see John, Anthony and Cora."
"I don't care where he is, just get him here."

Answer

When you use present continuous plus a future time, you have a future arrangement.  Shall and will simply indicate imagined actions (useful for predicting the future without real evidence), but do not indicate anything "real".

As for your comma/full stop matter, just remember that commas cut up a sentence. A full stop completes it.  A good rule of thumb is to avoid commas unless completely necessary.

Answer

to attend a conference - to be present at the conference
Present Continuous is used in the sense of a (personally) planned future action.

Because Tim is busy with the conference he has no spare time to see you untill after the conference.

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