diff --git a/doc/choosing_a_combinator.md b/doc/choosing_a_combinator.md
index 07744efa..3363f63c 100644
--- a/doc/choosing_a_combinator.md
+++ b/doc/choosing_a_combinator.md
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ Those are used to recognize the lowest level elements of your grammar, like, "he
 
 | combinator | usage | input | output | comment |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| [delimited](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.delimited.html) | `delimited(char('('), take(2), char(')'))` | `"(ab)cd"` | `Ok(("cd", "ab"))` ||
-| [preceded](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.preceded.html) | `preceded(tag("ab"), tag("XY"))` | `"abXYZ"` | `Ok(("Z", "XY"))` ||
-| [terminated](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.terminated.html) | `terminated(tag("ab"), tag("XY"))` | `"abXYZ"` | `Ok(("Z", "ab"))` ||
-| [pair](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.pair.html) | `pair(tag("ab"), tag("XY"))` | `"abXYZ"` | `Ok(("Z", ("ab", "XY")))` ||
-| [separated_pair](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.separated_pair.html) | `separated_pair(tag("hello"), char(','), tag("world"))` | `"hello,world!"` | `Ok(("!", ("hello", "world")))` ||
+| [delimited](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.delimited.html) | `delimited(char('('), take(2), char(')'))` | `"(ab)cd"` | `Ok(("cd", "ab"))` |Matches an object from the first parser and discards it, then gets an object from the second parser, and finally matches an object from the third parser and discards it.|
+| [preceded](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.preceded.html) | `preceded(tag("ab"), tag("XY"))` | `"abXYZ"` | `Ok(("Z", "XY"))` |Matches an object from the first parser and discards it, then gets an object from the second parser.|
+| [terminated](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.terminated.html) | `terminated(tag("ab"), tag("XY"))` | `"abXYZ"` | `Ok(("Z", "ab"))` |Gets an object from the first parser, then matches an object from the second parser and discards it.|
+| [pair](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.pair.html) | `pair(tag("ab"), tag("XY"))` | `"abXYZ"` | `Ok(("Z", ("ab", "XY")))` |Gets an object from the first parser, then gets another object from the second parser.|
+| [separated_pair](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.separated_pair.html) | `separated_pair(tag("hello"), char(','), tag("world"))` | `"hello,world!"` | `Ok(("!", ("hello", "world")))` |Gets an object from the first parser, then matches an object from the sep_parser and discards it, then gets another object from the second parser.|
 | [tuple](https://docs.rs/nom/latest/nom/sequence/fn.tuple.html) | `tuple((tag("ab"), tag("XY"), take(1)))` | `"abXYZ!"` | `Ok(("!", ("ab", "XY", "Z")))` | Chains parsers and assemble the sub results in a tuple. You can use as many child parsers as you can put elements in a tuple|
 
 ## Applying a parser multiple times
diff --git a/src/multi/mod.rs b/src/multi/mod.rs
index a1436d6d..d78611f9 100644
--- a/src/multi/mod.rs
+++ b/src/multi/mod.rs
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ where
 /// [`cut`][crate::combinator::cut].
 ///
 /// # Arguments
-/// * `sep` Parses the separator between list elements. Must be consuming.
+/// * `sep` Parses the separator between list elements.
 /// * `f` Parses the elements of the list.
 ///
 /// ```rust
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ where
 /// [`cut`][crate::combinator::cut].
 ///
 /// # Arguments
-/// * `sep` Parses the separator between list elements. Must be consuming.
+/// * `sep` Parses the separator between list elements.
 /// * `f` Parses the elements of the list.
 /// ```rust
 /// # use nom::{Err, error::{Error, ErrorKind}, Needed, IResult, Parser};
diff --git a/src/multi/tests.rs b/src/multi/tests.rs
index 080240cd..1003552f 100644
--- a/src/multi/tests.rs
+++ b/src/multi/tests.rs
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ fn separated_list1_test() {
   fn multi_longsep(i: &[u8]) -> IResult<&[u8], Vec<&[u8]>> {
     separated_list1(tag(".."), tag("abcd")).parse(i)
   }
+  fn empty_both(i: &[u8]) -> IResult<&[u8], Vec<&[u8]>> {
+    separated_list0(tag(""), tag("")).parse(i)
+  }
 
   let a = &b"abcdef"[..];
   let b = &b"abcd,abcdef"[..];
@@ -100,6 +103,10 @@ fn separated_list1_test() {
     multi(c),
     Err(Err::Error(error_position!(c, ErrorKind::Tag)))
   );
+  assert_eq!(
+    empty_both(f),
+    Err(Err::Error(error_position!(f, ErrorKind::SeparatedList)))
+  );
   let res3 = vec![&b"abcd"[..], &b"abcd"[..]];
   assert_eq!(multi(d), Ok((&b",ef"[..], res3)));