By Mixed conditionals, Contractions

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...

Thank you, Tam, for the effort you made to try to let me understand this structure. However ... Tam Sadek wrote: Perhaps this example using the Past Perfect/Past Simple will make it clearer. "We arrived late because our plane had been delayed" versus "We arrived late because our plane was...