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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
In formal writing, you drop the te and use only the (I forget the name) form. E.g., 起きて、学校に行く。 becomes 起き、学校に行く。 The idea I have is that you seek to minimize the voiceless plosives and stops. This seems to show up very frequently in Japanese, though it could just be observer bias on my part.
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Just in case you still don't remember it's just called the "Verb stem".
I just wanted to add that linking ～ている forms, the stem should become ～てい, but in actual fact it's just more common to use the stem of the humble form, おる to make ～ており
I just felt I needed to add this to complete that part of your post
