English - USA. Dec 12, 2010. #2. The phrase "Make an effort" is a verb phrase meaning "to work towards a goal". Generally in English, you need an article "the, an, some" in front of nouns to make them work properly. Therefore, "make efforts" is not a grammatically correct sentence. More @Wikipedia
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