While working through the Tobira textbook, I came to a grammar point Chapter 1
- #5. This stated verb stems and adverbial い-adj form could be used to combine
sentences as in:

>   1. 昨日は友達とレストランで晩ご飯を **食べ** 、その後、映画を見に行った。
>
>   2. この地方は冬は雪が **多く** 、夏はとても暑い。
>
>

It doesn't give English translations but I take these sentences to mean:

>   1. Yesterday I ate dinner with my friend at a restaurant, and after that
> we went to go watch a movie.
>
>   2. In this region, the winters have a lot of snow and the summers are very
> hot.
>
>

My question is whether this grammar structure can only be used with non-
conjugated phrases. This mostly concerns negative vs. affirmative sense, since
the 1st example shows that the first phrase will have the same past/non-past
sense as the following phrase.

For example, (following the pattern of い-adj --> て-form w/out て) do these make
sense/sound idiomatic:

>   3. 姉は **高くなく** 、まだ早くジョギングができます。
>

>
> _My sister is not tall, and still she can jog quickly_
>
>   4. 今日お昼ご飯を **食べなく** 、4時よりおなかがペコペコになってしまいました。
>

>
> _Today I did not eat lunch, and from 4 o-clock on I became hungry_

If these do not make sense, is there a similar grammar structure to use? Or
would just a word with the opposite sense be used instead?
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Conjunctions using stems, and its conjugation
You're right. That's how you conjugate ない forms, and I find nothing wrong with
the following examples that you provided:

>   3. 姉は **高くなく** 、まだ早くジョギングができます。
>

>
> _My sister is not tall, and still she can jog quickly_
>
>   4. 今日お昼ご飯を **食べなく** 、4時よりおなかがペコペコになってしまいました。
>

>
> _Today I did not eat lunch, and from 4 o-clock on I became hungry_

That being said, please do note that this form is more common in written
Japanese than in spoken Japanese. As far as I know, patterns like い-adj -->
て-form are more common in spoken Japanese.

To include Mindful's correction, the last option is better written as

>   4. 今日お昼ご飯を **食べないで** 、4時よりおなかがペコペコになってしまいました。
>
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