participles

The style is informationally dense, features longer words, and favors certain grammatical structures (like participles; GPT-4o loooooves participles).

Presumably you mean phrases including participles, not participles by themselves.

Now you don't have to wallow in all those awkward participles, which are almost without exception weaker than direct constructions.

As a rule of thumb, the nonfinite forms of a verb are its infinitives and participles.

Certain grammatical constructions might also end up being more common, such as the continued use of the y- prefix in past participles.

The three genders and four cases, participles prefixed with ge-, verbs like sindon (=sind).

It also applies to infitives and participles and the verb in nominalized noun-verb compounds.

Pronouns, adjectives, participles, all must be adjusted based on objects gender (exactly like it would be done when talking about a person).

To amplify what impendia said, Hiragana[1] is mostly used for participles and conjugation.

Why does every known language have verbs but only some has participles?

One of my elementary school teachers also taught me to use past participles, which means the quote from the article should have been written thusly: Lots of English writing has gotten simpler through...

And in Indo-European, they're all the same: compound past tense, participles, compound past and future.

No, you would say "published", because it's a past participle, and that is how we say past participles in English.

Low rate of nominalizations (ChatGPT loves those), only a few present participles, "that" as subject at a usual rate, usual number of adverbs, etc.

The guilty for "orientated" being so long is the habit of English of making verbs from Latin passive participles, instead of using just the verb stems, which leads to long verbal words and to clumsy English past participles derived from them.

Anyway, I would be really surprised if die-hard thoughtless style prescriptivists thought that the advice "don't use the passive voice" was meant to apply to participles.

Participles are less universal, but they are also not a uniquely English phenomenon.