"Thanks" is always used as a plural noun, whereas when we say "thank you," the word "thank" is a verb. You can explain that some nouns are always used in their plural form.
'thanks' is not a verb, it is a noun: one gives thanks.
A noun can be used as the subject of a sentence, or in another capacity as an object
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