grade point average (GPA)
grade, grader—Hyphenate both adjectival and noun forms: fourth-grade pupil, 12th-grade student, first-grader, 10th-graders.
grades, letter—Capitalize; do not italicize or use quotation marks. Form the plural with 's: He was sure he'd get straight A's and was shocked when he saw three B's and a C. Students must maintain a B average. (See plural figures and letters.)
gray (not grey)
H
half—Most compound adjectives with half are hyphenated: half-baked plan, half-time employee; some are closed: halfhearted attempt, halfway mark. Compound nouns with half can be open, hyphenated, or closed: half hour, half note, half sister, half-dollar, half-life, half-moon, halfback, halftone. Consult the dictionary.
hard copy
headline-style capitalization (also called title case)—Capitalize the first and last words and all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs of titles and subtitles. Lowercase articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet), and prepositions (to, toward, with, under, etc.), regardless of length, unless they are the first or last word of a title or subtitle. Lowercase the words to and as in any grammatical function. Lowercase the second part of a species name or parts of proper names that would be lowercased in text, such as de or von: Esox lucius, Alexis de Tocqueville. (8)
Capitalize open and hyphenated compounds in titles as follows: "First elements are always capitalized; subsequent elements are capitalized unless they are articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet), or such modifiers as flat, sharp, and natural following musical key symbols. Second elements attached by hyphens to prefixes are lowercased unless they are proper nouns or proper adjectives." Second elements of spelled-out hyphenated numbers are lowercased (Twenty-one, Fifty-four). If a compound (other than one with a hyphenated prefix) comes at the end of a title, its final element, whatever part of speech, is always capitalized. (9) (See titles, composition.)
health care (n.), health-care (adj.): Health care is a major issue with the candidates. Health-care reform is on the agenda.
HIV-negative, HIV-positive
honorable— See reverend and honorable.)
honors, academic—Academic degrees and honors following a personal name should be capitalized, whether abbreviated or spelled out: Steven Kiley, M.D.; Clyde M. Matthews, Doctor of Law.
Named professorships and fellowships are capitalized: Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology; Katherine Stuart May, Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation.
SUNY Distinguished Professor titles are capitalized: Steven D. Georgiou, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.
honors classes—Capitalize when referring to the formal program: All College Honors Colloquium, All College Honors Program; lowercase elsewhere.
(8) Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003), 8.167
(9) Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993), 7.128
