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- "Her pasta is on the plate."
"Her pasta is on the plate."
Translation:La sua pasta è nel piatto.
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"Nello" is used when it's a contraction of "in the" and the noun starts with either "z" or "s-impure" (st, sp, sch etc), where the noun is masculine . "In the zoo" would be "nello zoo", for example.
For this sentence you don't know - it could be either. The 'la sua' is feminine because 'pasta' is feminine, not because the pasta belongs to a woman. Normally this isn't a concern - if you're speaking to someone the context would normally be obvious. If you need to you can add the word for he or she for emphasis;
Lui la sua pasta è nel piatto (his pasta....)
Lei la sua pasta è nel piatto (her pasta....)
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No it would be correct, and means essentially the same thing. My husband says it's not uncommon to use the verb "stare" interchangeably with "essere".