Question

Girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without fire( insert an appropriate article wherever it is necessary)

Answer 1

The girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without fire.

Answer 2

The girl was cooking the roots and tree leaves without a fire.

Explanation:

The girl was cooking the roots and tree leaves without a fire.

• Articles play an important role in a sentence. It allows the reader to understand the prominence a subject and an object has in a sentence.
• The sentence is incomplete without articles as it does not tell about the specific person or thing in this sentence. But when articles are added the nouns in the sentence attain some value to it.
• Articles are definite and indefinite articles. The is a definite article and A and An are indefinite articles.
• The girl and roots and tree leaves are specific  hence a definite article the is used.
• Fire is necessary for cooking but it is not subjective so the article a is used.