problem with line managers

[bartholomew]

Hi my line manager wote this and i do not want to approach her without speaking to you folks:Until May 2005, the Clinical Audit reports were taken to the Service Excellence Working Group. Since the Trust's reorganisation, this group no longer meets and the Audit Committee has subsumed its work.

I think the verb subsumed was used incorrectly. Shouldn't it be took over?

[jno]

subsumed means absorbed so it's not entirely wrong, but it's unusual and clumsy. Took over is certainly much better English, clear and simple.

[BetsyLou]

or 'taken over', maybe... :)

[jno]

yup, 'took over' or 'has taken over'

[Loosehead]

Subsumed is correct and succint, why use 2 words when 1 will do? It means incorporated/absorbed which I think describes what the author intended.

[woofgang]

If your line manager wrote this and its going out over her signature, what's the problem? she should be able to put it any way she wants