I was told that ‘the’ precedes ‘definite article’ as there is only one definite article in English language. For example, in a sentence it would be
the use of the definite article
But what if I am tasked to pick one definite article from a text, for example
please, select a definite article from the text – (definite article is not a concept?)
Also I saw a sentence by a native speaker who used ‘a’, please see below:
In the form of a definite article
Is ‘the’ used to define the concept of the definite article or I am getting it completely wrong?