Both are okay, but different. "I had to drop off a cake for a friend" could mean, for example, that I had to drop off a cake at the school for a friend who had promised to make a cake but was unable to deliver it herself.

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I had to drop off a cake for a friend. Or I had to drop off a cake to a friend. Both ok?

Dear friend, the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them. One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence

I've been told by British friends that "different to" is basically the British equivalent of the American "different than": Neither is approved of by hardcore prescriptivists, but everybody uses them anyway. The American

Dear friend, when the antecedent ( others ) is personal and the pronoun is the subject of the relative clause, who is favoured, irrespective of the style and the occasion, although there is nothing wrong or odd about using that. Respectfully, Gleb

Dear friend, * London is different of Hong Kong - incorrect; London is different from/to Hong Kong - correct; *In Argentina, Christmas celebrations are completely different as the ones in England - incorrect; In Argentina, Christmas celebrations

Could you tell me if the following sentence sounds idiomatic from a native speaker's viewpoint? "I need to slam-dunk her a quick one" It may well get a laugh from Al Bundy in the context of a TV sitcom, but I think it would be

Dear Cheb , - Gleb Dear Avangi, peace be to their ashes. Our mission here, apart from taking heart, is not to forget what they used to tell us! and we are not far behind. - don't worry, my friend. Think about the place you have secured yourself

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