What is the difference between add up to total and add to top?
What is to be thought of in a post:!
Are the figures higher than the total population?
Why or why not?
Shouldn’t it be make IUP.?
What is your opinion or opinion?
The importance of grammar is not an issue, but it needs improving. What is the point of adding numbers to the total? If the words “up” would normally be described – for example, the numbers add up to “some total X” is four times more common than the numbers add to X, it’s not idiomatic preference. Consider…
He can add five to two and get five. Man can subtract two and two
and get five. (about 2000 instances in Google Books) (17 examples)
I might be happier if the word sum were used instead – I assume he has no problem with numbers that sum to a total (but there’s nothing wrong with numbers that sum up to Y either).
The importance of grammar is not an issue, but it needs improving. What is the point of adding numbers to the total? If the words “up” would normally be described – for example, the numbers add up to “some total X” is four times more common than the numbers add to X, it’s not idiomatic preference. Consider…
He can add five to two and get five. Man can subtract two and two
and get five. (about 2000 instances in Google Books) (17 examples)
I might be happier if the word sum were used instead – I assume he has no problem with numbers that sum to a total (but there’s nothing wrong with numbers that sum up to Y either).
Normally, people say “add to” when they mean to add to an existing or running total, and “add up” when they mean to calculate a sum from scratch.
“Add transaction amount to balance.” How
do you add up the amount of transactions to calculate your balance? “In
the example you give, the meaning is clear, so I wouldn’t call it wrong. Why do some people claim that we are strange? How many times did you write “The six numbers on a chart add up to more than
the total… the total?”.
