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I'm trying to sound as native as possible, so I would like to know which the more common way is of speaking in the present continuous tense (while knowing that the grammatically correct way would be to include い after て).
That happens very often, but it would be overgeneralizing to say that it always happens.
There are multiple levels of "informal speech" and it would be safe to say that the more informal the situation/conversation becomes, the more often the phenomenon in question occurs.
(It is not too informal to end sentences with 「ます」 or 「ました」 as in a couple of your example sentences, either. Sorry, but as a native speaker, I can't help noticing these little things here.)
