Apply Plus as a new head to a list but prevent evaluation

Question

I would like to illustrate to users the use of Apply with an example.

Plus@@Range[5]
(*15*)

To display what is happening I'm interesting in showing the expression after the List head has been replaced by Plus, but before evaluation. I can do it abstractly with an arbitrary symbol:

f@@Range[5]
(*f[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]*)

How do I control the evaluation flow to do the same with f replaced by Plus?

Edit:

To be more precise, I was wondering if I could control the evaluation so that the output would be shown as:

 Plus[1,2,3,4,5]

With Range[5] being evaluated, but not Plus.

Answer 1

expr = Range[5];
expr1 = Plus @@ expr;
expr2 = Defer@Plus @@ expr;
TreeForm /@ {expr, expr1, expr2}

Answer 2

Try this:

expr1 = Inactive[Plus] @@ Range[5]

The result is as follows:

If you need to further calculate it to the end make this:

expr2 = expr1 // Activate

(*  15  *)

Have fun!

Answer 3

Also

 HoldForm[Plus] @@ Range[5]
 (* Plus[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] *)

Comment: Use HoldForm or Defer (as in Syed's answer), depending on how the output is to be used. See the Properties and Relations section of the documentation for Defer.