Which grammar point is this? (Multiple verbs ending with just stems, only ending with -masu for last verb)

Japanese
#1

I would like to add a grammar point to my deck, but have no clue what it could be called.
In a book I’m reading, I’ve found a sentence similar to this structure:

パンをたべ、ジュースをのみます。

It kind of takes away the ます from たべます, due to it being part of a list that ends in ます anyway, so basically kind of like “I am bread-eat-, and juice-drink-ing”.

It’s kind of similar in English, though rarer, think of sentences like “Ants were crawling into, and out of his sandwich”, rather than " Ants were crawling into, and crawling out of his sandwich".

Is there an official grammar point for the structure below?
Phrase + Verb[stem], Phrase + Verb[stem] + ます

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#2

It is basically just putting a comma after the verb, just like using the て-form, but using the stem is more polite.

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#3

That was my theory as well, but it’s a bit confusing to encounter for the first time (since I thought these were just the noun forms of the verbs somehow), and having a grammar point about it would be very helpful. I would like to add it to a deck I’m making, since this pattern occurs quite often. If it doesn’t exist, it could be a good addition to add to one of the standard Nx decks?

#4

There is a short note on this in the Polite Verb Endings lesson (along with some example sentences that I’ve omitted from the quote below):

Caution

In general, です and ます will only appear at the end of sentences. However, this is not a strict rule, as they are both occasionally used before conjunction particles such as が ‘but’ in very polite language.

If I were to explain from my own experience, the ます-form generally appears at the end of a main clause. If a sentence is made up of one clause, the final verb takes the ます-form, all other verbs use their regular form. If a sentence is made up of a subclause and a main clause, the sub clause is all in the regular form, only the final verb in the main clause takes the ます-form. If a sentence is made up of two main clauses, sometimes both main clauses contain a ます-form. Though I’ve seen exceptions to this too.

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#5

Not sure if there is an exact lesson on Bunpro for this, but Tae Kim has a short write up here: Formal Expressions – Learn Japanese

(Scroll down to the Sequential relative clauses in formal language section at the end).

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#6

It’s probably difficult to find unless you already know to search for “formal conjunctive”

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#7

Thank you so much! I think that was exactly what I was looking for.

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