What happened in DC was a disgusting act. In America, people are supposed to be United, instead, they are dividing each other just because of their political beliefs. The rioting in the capitol was a terrorist act. Just because your favorite president candidate didn’t win the election doesn’t mean you should destroy America.
You should definitely put classical, it sounds more educated.
The verbal here is "to skydive".
It's an infinitive: infinitives have the form "to verb" and are a form of verbals: words formed from verbs that don't function as verbs.
