"were caught" is the verb.
The nouns are: thousands, years, fish, nets, traps.
The conjunction in the sentence is and, which joins the compound object of the preposition 'in'.
Thousands - noun of - preposition years - noun ago - adverb fish - noun were - verb (auxiliary) caught - verb (past participle) in - preposition nets - noun and - conjunction traps - noun
The two words 'and traps' are a (a) conjunction (and) and a plural noun (traps).The conjunction 'and' joins the compound object of the preposition 'in' (nets and traps).
There is not a linking verb in the sentence "Thousands of years ago, fish were caught in nets and traps."A linking verb is one that connects the subject to more information about the subject (subject complement). Example: They were happy when the plane landed after a turbulent flight. Were is the linking verb connecting the subject, they, to the subject compliment, happy.An auxiliary verb (helping verb) helps another verb complete the verb phrase. In the predicate were caught, were is an auxiliary verb.
And is a conjunction.
The word 'and' is a conjunction, a word that connects words, sentences, phrases, or clauses.The conjunction 'and' connects the compound objects of the preposition 'in'.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.Example: Fish were caught in nets and traps. Theywere cooked on a campfire. (the pronoun 'they' takes the place of the noun 'fish' in the second sentence)
"and" is a conjunction. A conjunction links a word or a group of words to other words in a sentence. For example: "I was eating a hamburger and drinking a Coke.' "and" connects "I was eating a hamburger" with "drinking a Coke.' Other conjunctions are for, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
um... yeah, you forgot to write what you're question actually is regarding that sentence by the way. And I already know it. The rest of your question is: " 'in' is this a conjunction, preposition, pronoun or verb". tsk tsk. not doing your penn foster work by yourself eh? Oh well. carry on.
There are three nouns. They are people, thousands, and years (all plural nouns).
5 years
I've got a available heart for thousands years.