Please Tell Me If These Phrases Are Correct #11
Please tell me if I made mistakes in my questions and tell me the most natural way to say. Thanks!!!!

1/Take off you hair tie
2/Take off your knot (of your hair, but I'm not sure that this one is correct...)
3/(While walking down the street) Be careful not to fall!
4/How would you call a simple piece of furniture without doors with a shelf where I put shoes away? A shoe cabinet? I don't know if I can say 'Cabinet' because there ain't no doors?
5/Do you want to take a pack of cookies?
6/Do you stick a magnet on the fridge or you paste it on?
7/We've got the entire pool to ourselves or for ourselves?

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Please Tell Me If These Phrases Are Correct #11
Please tell me if I made mistakes in my questions and tell me the most natural way to say. Thanks!!!!

1/Take off you hair tie
2/Take off your knot (of your hair, but I'm not sure that this one is correct...)
3/(While walking down the street) Be careful not to fall!
4/How would you call a simple piece of furniture without doors with a shelf where I put shoes away? A shoe cabinet? I don't know if I can say 'Cabinet' because there ain't no doors?
5/Do you want to take a pack of cookies?
6/Do you stick a magnet on the fridge or you paste it on?
7/We've got the entire pool to ourselves or for ourselves?

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On shoe storage, I think you mean a shoe rack.  It just keeps shoes off the floor but provides no further protection.  Shoe cabinets normally have shelves and pull-down doors.

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Hi Joffrey,
1/ You could say “Please remove your hair tie”.
2/ You could say "Please take off your the knot out of your hair". You don’t need the word please to be correct but….:-)
4/This is often referred to as a “shoe rack”  My recommendation would be to avoid “ain’t” and say instead “there are no doors”
5/“A package of cookies” is probably more common.
6/ You would "stick" the magnet on.
7/It would be more common to say “We have the entire pool to ourselves.”  You will hear people say we’ve got. I personally avoid the use of got whenever possible – especially when writing.
Hope this helps!

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You stick a magnet to the fridge. "Paste" assumes some kind of sticky adhesive.
We've got the entire pool to ourselves. Interestingly, it would be appropriate to say, "We've rented the entire pool for ourselves."
Be careful not to fall! is fine.
#2 we might say, "Let down your hair."
"Would you like to take a pack of cookies?" This is fine if I'm leaving your place and you're offering me a pack of cookies to take with me as I leave. Otherwise, generally I would say, "Would you like a pack of cookies?"

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