little learning is a dangerious thing,which part of speech
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A little,’ as an adjectival expression referring to quantity, normally has a positive sense, that is, not much but more than nothing, e.g. “I have a little money, enough to buy some groceries.” ‘Little’ as an adjective by itself normally has a negative sense when referring to quantity, that is, almost nothing, e.g. “I have little sympathy for people who get speeding tickets. They’re dangerous.”
That’s why the Alexander Pope line “A little learning is a dangerous thing,” from a 1709 work, is unusual in modern usage. We quote it to mean that people with a superficial knowledge of something think that they know more than they do, and they make bad decisions. Today we’d convey that sense with “Little learning/Superficial knowledge is a dangerous thing.”