Any grammatical errors?
We were walking until Tesco came into sight. Then we found a chest on our way to Tesco so we opened it a thin plume of smoke drifted into our eyes. We teared and were flummoxed.
Is it okay to use the word "flummox" instead of bewilder, confuse in that context?
Informally, yes. However, you need a full stop (period) after 'it', and the last sentence should be 'Our eyes teared up and we were flummoxed'.
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Informally, yes.
However, you need a full stop (period) after 'it', and the last sentence should be 'Our eyes teared up and we were flummoxed'.