diff --git a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/3-transform/client/visitors/ExpressionStatement.js b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/3-transform/client/visitors/ExpressionStatement.js
index d5b7115e7b..90e40f7277 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/3-transform/client/visitors/ExpressionStatement.js
+++ b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/3-transform/client/visitors/ExpressionStatement.js
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export function ExpressionStatement(node, context) {
 				context.state.current_parallelized_chunk = chunk;
 				context.state.parallelized_chunks.push(chunk);
 			}
-			return;
+			return b.empty;
 		}
 	}