Thanks for the help vs Thanks for helping me

• Thanks for helping me. 
• Thanks for the help.
• Thank you for your help.
• Thank you for being so helpful.
• Thank you for helping me out.

These sentences are all correct and mean the same thing. They are used to show your gratitude.

Thanks for help is incorrect.

Thanks for helping me/Thank you for helping me

Thank you for helping me is a good way to show your gratitude in any situation. “Thanks” is more informal. 

We cannot use Thank you for help me because you must follow a preposition with a gerund. 

In this example, “for” is a preposition so we need to use a verb in the -ing form. 

Other examples of this rule:

Thank you for shopping at Tesco.

Thank you for cleaning my room. 

Thanks for the help/Thank you for your help.

Thanks for the help/Thank you for your help can both be used when you want to thank someone when a small project is completed. 

In this case, we use help as a noun and we can use the definite article “the” or the possessive adjective “your”

Again, Thanks or Thank you are possible depending on whether you want to be informal/formal.

Thank you for being so helpful

In this case, we use the adjective” helpful”. 

There is a small difference in meaning. You can use this when you want to express that someone is always helpful and that they are generally a helpful person. 

It is possible to use “Thank you for being so helpful” for a small project but it is more common to use “Thanks for the help”

Thank you for helping me out

In this example, we use the phrasal verb “to help out”

To help out can be used to show gratitude in general but it also adds a little more meaning. 

We use help out when we are in a difficult situation and we need help This could be an emotional situation. 

Let’s look at some examples: