There is no semicolon at the end of that instruction causing the error.
EDIT
Like RiverC pointed out, there is no semicolon at the end of the previous line!
require ("scripts/connect.php")
EDIT
It seems you have no-semicolons whatsoever.
http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php
As in C or Perl, PHP requires instructions to be terminated with a semicolon at the end of each statement.