So I've been told that when you use the て form of verbs in a sentence, the
last verb is the one that tells you in what tense the sentence is, but I found
this sentence:

> 目を合わせて逸らさない、というのはそれで真摯に見える。内心でどう思っていても、少なくとも見た目は。

So according to what I said, the translation for that first part would be "To
not make eye contact and to not look away", but that doesn't make any sense in
this situation, because the person is trying to look as sincere as possible.

My question is, how do I know if the last verb is influencing the previous
verbs or not?
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grammar verbs て-form
How does the て form work here?