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"
