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Hello everyone,Could you please point out the mistakes in the following composition?                           ForewordI heartily thank my friend whom enablede to finish this dictionary in relatively very short time.  This dictionary is small in size but it is large in content in a way that could be called "Small Giant Dictionary". The dictionary comprises all of the most common and contemporary words in daily life. The dictionary is geared for students of intermediate, high school, imstitute levels and useful for university level. In addition it is very useful for English language students and a necessary tool for English speaking trying to function in the Arabic culture. Necessity is the mother of invention. In my own experience of learning a new language , I have found haveing a dictionary in my native language would have helped me a great deal. Until now there is no pocket English-Arabic dictionary. This is the reason I worked so hard to develop such a dictionary. The changing time in Iraq after the Gulf War II has brought the UN and many English speakers to Iraq, learning the language for them is difficult as they cannot express themselves without English-Arabic dictionary. These were impetus for my work to write this dictionary.

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Joseph Athe Gulf War II

This is colloquial and not good because it is not specific. If you mean the war of 1991, you only need to say the Gulf War. See the introduction of the article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

If you mean the war that started in 2003, you only need to say the Iraq War. See the introduction of the article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

Joseph Awithout English-Arabic dictionary.

You should write this as without an English-Arabic dictionary or without English-Arabic dictionaries.

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Joseph AI heartily thank my friend whom enablede to finish this dictionary in relatively very short time.

Notice the red letter showing a spelling mistake. You also left out a word after that. Me would fit there.

Using whom is possible but excessively formal.

The yellow part is clumsy. You could write it as in a relatively short amount of time or, a very short amount of time. Choose one of the underlined parts.

Joseph AThis dictionary is small in size but it is large in content

This is possible but wordy. You can delete the red part.

Joseph AThe dictionary is geared for students of intermediate, high school, imstitute levels

Here's a quote from

The Comma (,)

section of the article here https://www.skillsyouneed.com/write/punctuation1.html Note that in a list, the final two items are linked by the word ‘and’ rather than by a comma.

Joseph Auseful for university level.

It would be better to write this part separately as It is also useful at university level.

Joseph Aa necessary tool for English speaking

for English speakers.

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