WHICH SENTENCE IS CORRECT?

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The question asks to identify the grammatically correct sentence.

Evaluate the use of prepositions for years.
When referring to a year, the preposition "in" is used. "On" is used for specific dates (e.g., "on January 1, 1971") or days of the week.
- Option A uses "on 1971", which is incorrect.
- Options B, C, D, and E use "in 1971", which is correct.
Evaluate capitalization rules.
- The pronoun "I" is always capitalized.
- The first word of a sentence is always capitalized.
- Other words in the sentence (like "was" and "born") should not be capitalized unless they are part of a proper noun, which is not the case here.
- Option B capitalizes "Was", which is incorrect.
- Option C capitalizes "Born", which is incorrect.
- Option D uses a lowercase "i", which is incorrect for the pronoun "I".
- Option E correctly capitalizes "I" and keeps "was born" in lowercase.
Evaluate punctuation.
All options end with a period, which is correct for a declarative sentence.

Based on the analysis, option E is the only sentence that follows all grammatical rules for prepositions and capitalization.

The correct sentence is:
E. I was born in 1971.

The final answer is $\text{E}$

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