Softening speech with "ba"

The particle 吧 can be used to soften the feel of a sentence. This could be to make it more polite, gentler and less forceful, or to turn a command into a suggestion. The structure is:

Subject + Verb + Object + 吧

Some examples:

• 这样 不 太 好 吧。
• 咱们 喝 啤酒 吧。
• 算了吧。
• 应该 是 吧。

Note that to make suggestions for a group of people including oneself, 咱们 is often used with 吧.