I was stuck for a bit with the 'stalking' bit, so perhaps I can help. Below is how I went about it.
On reversing the second clause, we see this : exceptional hunting skills are required.....
I prefer the first one ( choice B) because skilled are required for a purpose and hence should take an infinitive (of purpose)
Please let me know what you think.
rekhabishop wrote:
I feel that the answer is C. I'm not sure why 'to stalk' is more appropriate than stalking.
Plus in B, I feel that 'to stalk....and get' breaks the parellelism law. It should be 'to stalk.....to get'
I agree with you on the first part,
rekhabishop: I'm not sure that there's a clear reason why "to stalk" is fundamentally better than "stalking." In general, I'd be fine with either one of those, and the difference between "to stalk" and "stalking" really isn't the deciding factor, anyway (unless we're worried about the parallelism -- more on that in a moment). The bigger issue is that the pronouns are wrong in A, D, and E, so we're left with two options that feature "to stalk."
But the parallelism is completely fine in B and C: "get" is parallel with "stalk", and there's no reason to repeat the word "to." It might not be
wrong, exactly, if we repeated "to", but it certainly isn't necessary.
And even if you want the sentence to say "to get", that's not an option, so it isn't something you should worry about. What's the only difference between B and C? Just a couple of extra, unnecessary words ("in order") in C. So B must be the correct answer.
I hope this helps!