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This study investigates potential differences in the use of the speech act of warning in English between Jordanian EFL and American undergraduate students. Findings have revealed that the respondents used 21 simple strategies to express warning, as well as 21 combinations of simple strategies. The differences in the use of warning have been attributed to the cultural and ideological diversity of the two groups, while the similarities confirmed that the strategies are universal and that Jordanians may be influenced by American media to the extent that many of their responses were essentially native-like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]