The government is run by business illiterates.

This analysis involves the Latin rules for consecutio temporum and deviations from these rules. The Latin rules concerning consecutio temporum are not strictly followed in non-direct speech and thought representation, as many grammars observe.

Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel.

In the begynnynge was that worde / ãd that worde was with god : and god was thatt worde.