Using は(wa) or が(ga)


So I'm trying to make a sentence which goes, "My effort is still not enough",
and I came up with

"私の努力(__)まだ足りない。"

I was thinking about using wa, however since "足りない" is intransitive, I
wondered if I should use ga instead?




If you say「私の努力」it follows that you would use は.

By saying 「私の努力」rather than just「努力」, the sentence already begins by singling
the speaker out, so I think は would most naturally follow.

If you drop the「私の」you could naturally use は or が depending on the context.

Like...

_Your boss comes over to your desk to discuss a project that your team has
been working on:_

> プロジェクトがまた失敗したね、ボビー君
[code]

    Your project failed again, eh Bobby?  
    
[/code]

> そうですね。 **私の努力は** まだ足りません。
[code]

    Yeah, I'm just not putting in enough effort. 
    (*Maybe if I tried something other than just putting in effort, 
    things might have worked out differently...)
    
[/code]

OR

> そうですね。 **努力は** まだ足りません
[code]

    Yeah, not enough effort is being put in.   
    (*A lack of effort is the problem. Maybe it's me, maybe it's the team...)
    
[/code]

> そうですね。 **努力が** まだ足りません。
[code]

    Yeah, not enough effort is being put in.   
    (*Lack of effort is a problem, maybe there are other problems too...)
    
[/code]




If you say「私の努力」it follows that you would use は.

By saying 「私の努力」rather than just「努力」, the sentence already begins by singling
the speaker out, so I think は would most naturally follow.

If you drop the「私の」you could naturally use は or が depending on the context.

Like...

_Your boss comes over to your desk to discuss a project that your team has
been working on:_

> プロジェクトがまた失敗したね、ボビー君
[code]

    Your project failed again, eh Bobby?  
    
[/code]

> そうですね。 **私の努力は** まだ足りません。
[code]

    Yeah, I'm just not putting in enough effort. 
    (*Maybe if I tried something other than just putting in effort, 
    things might have worked out differently...)
    
[/code]

OR

> そうですね。 **努力は** まだ足りません
[code]

    Yeah, not enough effort is being put in.   
    (*A lack of effort is the problem. Maybe it's me, maybe it's the team...)
    
[/code]

> そうですね。 **努力が** まだ足りません。
[code]

    Yeah, not enough effort is being put in.   
    (*Lack of effort is a problem, maybe there are other problems too...)
    
[/code]

