Questions: Question #4 Read the following sentence and choose which italics rule BEST applies to this sentence. My aunt has a beautiful coral honeysuckle vine in her front yard; it's a Georgia native plant with the scientific name lonicera sempervirens. Use italics when writing a word referred to as a particular word. Use italics when writing the name of a species, variety, or subspecils. Use italics when writing an unfamiliar foreign word.

The answer is: Use italics when writing the name of a species, variety, or subspecies.

This rule applies when a word is being discussed as a word itself, such as in linguistic or grammatical contexts. In the given sentence, the word in italics is not being referred to as a word itself.

This is the correct rule that applies to the sentence. The scientific name _lonicera sempervirens_ is the name of a species, and it is standard practice to italicize scientific names of species.

This rule applies to foreign words that are not commonly used in English. The italicized text in the sentence is a scientific name, not an unfamiliar foreign word.