ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the meaning of comparison is conveyed in Japanese without special adjective forms. It also shows examples of questions that one can ask someone in order to compare three or more options. When deliberating on where to go for a vacation, which class of transport to take, and so on, English speakers would resort to comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, such as closer, cheaper, and easiest to characterize various options. If one want to compare three or more kinds of activities rather than some concrete items, use nominalized clauses. By using the spatial word naka inside in an abstract sense, one can specify the group in which he or she are making the comparison. One can also compare things by identity. That is, he or she can say that two things are identical, similar, or different.
