Working through Japanese for Busy People book 3 and there is a section on different meanings of て form. There is:
order of actions, cause, means, attendant circumstances. I understand all of these except the last.
昨日の午後、掃除をして、洗濯をしました（order of actions）
仕事があって、パーティーにいけませんでした。（cause）
銀行からお金をかりて、家を買いました（means）
新しいジャケットを着て、会社に行きました（attendant circumstances）
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What is the meaning of attendant circumstances here. This seems like order of actions to me. I don’t really understand the usage. One might say why does it matter? Because in negative form, the usage changes…
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子供が朝ごはんを食べなくて、困っています。（cause）
朝ごはんを食べないで、会社にいきます。（attendant circumstances）
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This is still unclear to me when to use one form over the other. The negative situation seems to say that I didn’t eat breakfast and am going to work. Not a cause, but just something that happened. This is just order of actions though, right? The same can be said for the jacket sentence.
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Any enlightenment is much appreciated.