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I was reading about the て form and trying to understand it, then I came across
some sentences using て form and a question came into my mind:

What changes if instead of using the て form for all verbs and adjectives, と/や
are used?

Example:

> 日本語クラスは簡単で面白くて楽しい。

Couldn't it be rewritten like this?

> 日本語クラスは簡単なと面白いと楽しい。

Or are と/や used only for "things", while the て form is used for words?

Also, I read that て form is used to connect the contents of the sentence. But
in the example I rewrote above, isn't it clearly connected?
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grammar particles て-form particle-と
Difference between て-form and と/や for connecting adjectives/verbs
と -in the sense of `A and B`- and や can only be used to connect nouns or noun-
phrases, but they cannot be used to connect adjectives and verbs.

Therefore this sentence would be wrong:

> x 日本語クラスは簡単なと面白いと楽しい。

But you can say this:

> ○ 日本語クラスといえば、「簡単な」と「面白い」と「楽しい」という言葉を思い出す。
>
> Regarding Japanese classes, I think of [the words] "easy/simple" and
> "interesting" and "fun".

Here the words are only mentionted, effectively they become the noun `the word
X`.

The _te_ -form can be used to join sentences, phrases or verbs/adjectives. For
illustration, another example with the _te_ -form:

> 早起きして体操をした
>
> 本を読んで感想を書く

Note that the _te_ -form has got a few other usages as well, such as implying
a causal relationship:

> 金が無くて行かれない

Finally, it should be mentioned that と can be used with verbs as well, but
that is a different usage and coonects phrases, but not nouns:

> 電気を消すと暗くなる。 (If/When lights are turned off, it gets dark.)
>
> 家に帰ると手紙が来ていた. (There was a letter waiting for me when I got home.)
>
> どうして節電しないといけないの？ (Why do [I/we] need to save electricity?)
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