type II

Hi Trex

Your sentence is a "mixed conditional". Perhaps the writer at Longman thought that begging/pleading (on bended knee) was far more probable than actually getting the job back.

Thank you, Yankee.

The full form, more hypothetical, would be:

If I were to go on bended knee to the boss, do you think she'd give me my job back?

That's an interesting theory, but I'm not sure I can agree with it, Marius. I think it would be highly unlikely for someone to simply drop 'were to'. After all, it's only the 'were to' part that would make 'go' more hypothetical than probable.

If someone wanted that part of the sentence to sound more hypothetical (i.e. to match the more hypothetical second part), they would probably say

If I go on bended knee to the boss, do you think she'd give me my job back? (Longman)

Why "would give"? "going on bended knee" is real. Why isn't it "will give"? why is it imaginary?

I take she'd give as she'll be willing to give -- in other words the "volitional" meaning of would, not the conditi

Hi all,

Sorry to be off-topic here but I would like to know whether '...she wouldn't give me my job back' has the same meaning as '...she wouldn't give me back my job'?

Also, could say 'she wouldn't give my job back to me'?

Thank you.

Best wishes,

PBF

Yes, they all mean the same thing, PBF.