Hey I have increasingly come across more and more examples of a single word phrase, that ends in て-form. I understood て-form as something used for connecting things.
Examples such as:
助けて
頑張って
待って
Is it because all of these have an omitted くれ or 下さい behind them like so?
助けて下さい
頑張って下さい
待って下さい
Thanks in advance for your help 
That’s basically what it means to use the て form as a light command. If it helps you to understand it to think of it as invisible or omitted… that’s fine I guess, but it’s not like it’s actually the case that it “must” be there to function as a command.
If by this you mean that you interpreted it as always needing something connecting, that’s not the case. Sometimes て stands on its own.
That is, there are sentence-ending uses (including what we’re discussing) where there’s no “omission”, it just can end a sentence that way.
Ah i see, thank you
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