Pass offset and limit in Drupal embed view
| skip first 1 sometime or first 3 some other time.

Is there a reason you can't do this in the view? If you use a pager you can specify an on offset in pager options.

If you need to do this in code, you do something like:

$view=views_get_view('questions');
$view-&gt;display['block']-&gt;display_options['pager']['options']['offset'] = 'OFFSET NUMBER';
$view-&gt;execute_display('block'));