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There are Countable and uncountable nouns
If you don't know what countable and uncountable nouns are, you should look at the intermediate level. (But for those people with bad memories, uncountable nouns are things that you can't have two or more of. "Two happinesses" sounds a little bit strange. As was mentioned above, uncountable nouns cannot have plurals. But they can - when you are talking about a particular type of uncountable noun.
Look at beer. (Yes, please!) Beer is uncountable. When you tell the barman "two beers, please" this is just a lazy way of saying "two glasses (or bottles) of beer, please". But really, beer is uncountable - like water. But while we say the English drink a lot of beer (beer being uncountable), the English drink many types of beer. For example in my area, Greene King is a popular beer, and in Yorkshire many people drink Tetley's. Both these beersbeers and they taste different from German beers.
We can also talk about the are English joys of being a parent, unless children are one of your hates. However, other types of uncountable/insubstantive nouns do not work like this. So we say "there are many types of courage" and not "there are many courages".
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