It will sound right only to a native speaker, who absorbs these usages with the air he breathes. When learning the language, you simply have to work at mastery. There are plenty of English learners to whom something sounds right that strikes the ears of native speakers with a painful buzz.
It is not just English. English is not just about being confusing. English blends the logics of many languages, and that makes it complex, but why do we take such giddy delight in its quirks? It is not as if other languages had none. Try learning the counting systems in Japanese: one set of numbers for counting days, another for counting people; one for small flat things, another for round things, another for animals. Or something like that. I don’t remember them all and never did find out what you do if you have a small flat round thing. And yet there is no plural noun: one pencil, two pencil, and you say “there are pencil in the box” with no distinction between one and many.