Subject verb agreement

Question

Greetings,  I have a question about the sentence “Mientras, los otros niños hacíamos una fila…” If the subject is los otros niños, should the verbs in this sentence be conjugated in the third person plural? Hacían? Entraban? There is no indication that the narrator is including himself in the group of kids waiting in line. Please help me understand. Thank you.

Answer

Hola LaliaThe narrator is indeed feeling included in that group of the other kids. If you read the text again you can see how he is from the beginning talking about his own experiences as a child and he says that his favourite game was the "comba" so it's not really strange that by the end he uses the first person plural as a "nosotros" (as if one of them was himself).I hope it clarified it.Saludos