'to hold a class' is correct and usable in written English. You could use it when referring to a class or lesson being taught or presented by someone. For example: "The teacher decided to hold a class on Shakespeare's plays.".
The recently formed music department has never been able to hold a class on campus.
The Red Cross offers preparedness classes in Manhattan for New York residents, and said it planned to hold a class for businesses.
Caplin takes her work extremely seriously; whatever else one says about her, she is ambitious and hard-working, frequently at the gym by 7am to hold a class.
Some people, one hears, ask why she brought quilting experts from off the island to hold a class, when they know perfectly well how to quilt, and have for centuries.
He looked as if he were about to hold a yoga class.
He then had time to hold a coaching class with youngsters in Khaylitsha, a deprived township on the edge of Cape Town.
Provide time at the end of the period to hold a brief class discussion in which students have an opportunity to reflect on how their perceptions of older people have changed (if at all) over the course of the period.
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