I kind of made them up. 
Noun phrase example from real life would be “the ladies at the Japanese restaurant I get lunch at who thought I started learning Japanese because I was into anime because I look like the kind of person who’d be into anime despite the fact I’m not generally into anime”
The が there should be a を, btw 
Otherwise, good explanation 
Good catch, thanks!
I’m still working on the grammar thing too, but as far as I can tell, it’s only 一段 verbs, する verbs, and irregular verbs that don’t have 連用形 forms, but they can do the same thing in other ways.
ugh, I have so much studying to do for WaniKani, and other things that I don’t feel like I have time for shows and stuff I could do this in (although I could probably remedy this from not spending an hour and a half on video games but that’s not gonna happen 
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Close but not quite! Any form of a verb before -ます is its 連用形 form, so 食べ for 食べる, し for する, 歌い for 歌う, いらっしゃい for いらっしゃる, and so on. Not all 連用形 forms are conventionally used as nouns though, e.g. for singing you’ll find 歌唱 and 歌声 but not 歌い.
Ahh, I guess I haven’t come across those forms yet. Thanks for the tips! 
Don’t worry, this will happen with almost everything you learn, suddenly you become aware of it’s existence. It’s like it wasn’t there before, but suddenly appeared. Like when you find a favorite brand and you start seeing it everywhere, not just for vocab but for grammar too. But you have to look at native materials(eventually) of course. It’s the real life SRS
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