[General] slacken

[Silverobama]

Hi.

Are the following sentences natural and grammatical? They're from my notebook but the source is not known.

1) Slacken your legs and slowly lie back.
2) The rope slackened.
3) The rain slackened.

All of these are good.

 

[Rover_KE]

You need to tell us what you think each sentence means.

 

[Silverobama]

You need to tell us what you think each sentence means.

When I said "all of these are good", I meant "all of the sentences are okay to me but I'm not sure because I'm not a native speaker".

 

[Tdol]

I can't picture what the first means.

 

[Rover_KE]

When I said "all of these are good", I meant "all of the sentences are okay to me but I'm not sure because I'm not a native speaker".

Define 'good'. They're grammatical, but we still don't know whether they mean what you think they mean.

 

[Silverobama]

Define 'good'. They're grammatical, but we still don't know whether they mean what you think they mean.

I just want to make sure if these sentences are grammatical and natural. By saying "natural", I mean "idiomatic", native speakers of English will say and use.

 

[emsr2d2]

Of the three, I would only use #2. The first is meaningless because "slacken your legs" is meaningless. Rain doesn't slacken.

 

[tedmc]

I am surprised that we can use slacken with rain.
See here.

For 1, I would say relax your legs.

 

[Tdol]

Rain can slacken off.

It can, but, even using a walking stick and weak, I can't see how my legs slacken.