Illegal Start of Expression for if-statment, no problems with braces

This is only a small snippet of my code, but I checked over everything, including braces, and everything runs fine without this statement, I can't tell what is wrong with it though (the subprogram it called is a random float generator btw)...

'''

  float funnelDirection = randomFunnelDirection(); 

  float funnelR = funnelDirection; 

  if (funnelR == 1f)  
  {
    funnelR = -1f;   
  }
  else 
  {
    funnelR = 1f;   
  }

float reverseFunnelDir = funnelR; 

'''

Since people said that this specific code is not the problem, this is the only other part of the code that uses the if-statement from above

'''

if (funnel.GetPos().x > 0)
    {
      funnel.Move((funnelSpeed * funnelDirection), 0); 
    }
    else if (funnel.GetPos().x <= 0)
    {
      funnel.Move((funnelSpeed * reverseFunnelDir), 0); 
    }

'''