In the following sentence, identify the part of speech of the italicized word? thousands of years ago, fish were caught in nets and traps.
a. pronoun
b. conjuction
c. prepsition
d. linking verb

The question is asking to identify the part of speech of the italicized word in the following sentence:" Thousands of years ago, fish were caught in nets and traps." Since I don't know which word was italicized, I will tell you what parts of speech are present: a. pronoun - there are no pronouns in this sentence; b. conjuction - there are no conjuctions (an example of a conjunction is "although"; c. prepsition - the preposition here is "of" and another one is "in" ; d. linking verb - were, it "links" "fish" and "caught"